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The magazine for hardcore Amiga enthusiasts! 




Prom the makers of AMIGA 

FORMAT 

Visual 
Vibrance! 

We review and rate 
three new graphics 
programs - Photogenics, 
ImageFX 2.0 and 
Personal Paint 6.1 

Plus - the real story of 
the rise and fall of 
Commodore. Find out why 
they really went into 
liquidation and exactly 
what has happened since 

Wordworth 3.1 & 3.1SE - 
has Digita got it right this 
time? See page 21 



ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 • £2.50 




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V-LAB MOTION is it a PAR beater? PIZZAZ, WORDWORTH 3.1 

AND AURA reviewed, C PROGRAMMING, COMMS, ASSEMBLER Your guarantee 

AND MUSIC tutorials & THE BEST OF AMIGA PD & SHAREWARE of value 



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UTILITIES 

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VIDEO AND GRAPHICS 

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CONTENTS 



.nTHIS issue 

AMIGA SHOPPER FEBRUARY 1995 No 46 



FEATURES REGULARS 




m wise man once told me that "a 
At rolling slug gathers no moss". 
Wise words, I think you'll agree. In 
the spirit of the aforementioned slug, 
we here at Amiga Shopper are forever 
looking to push forward the 
boundaries of magazine publishing. 
We don't have any comprehensive 
roundups of slug ml/ability, but we do 
have the real story of the rise and fall 
of Commodore, not to mention 
reviews of three new graphics 
programs. What more could a 
downwardly mobile slug ask for? 

Richard Baguley - Editor 



Visual Vibrance 




Three new graphics programs 
have hit the scene. 
Which could turn you into a 
pixeliated Picasso? 



Is Wordworth 3.1 Just 
what the doctor 
ordered? Will 
Wordworth 3.1SE fill 
a hole in the word 
processor market? 
Jeff Walker examines 
them both on page 21 



The second D of 3D 
Is... Decoration. Learn 
how to wallpaper your 
virtual world with Mojo 
of Foundation Imaging 
- on page 32. 




COMMODORE 

- THE REAL STORY 8 

Find out what really happened to 
Commodore International with our in-depth 
feature. Tim Green investigates. 

THE THREE DS OF 3D 3a 

Mojo Seffa of Foundation imaging gets on 
to the second D - Decoration. 

PUBLIC DOMAIN 76 

Graeme Sandiford checks out the latest 
iow-cost and no-cost serious software, 

REVIEWS 

PIZZAZ 16 

Can this newcomer overcome the old 
classics of the video titling world? Gary 
White ley checks it out. 

V-LAB MOTION 1 8 

A PAR beater for under £500? Gar Whiteley 
investigates the latest V-Lab product. 

WORDWORTH 3.1 21 

Has version 3.1 overcome the problems 
with 3.0? Jeff Walker spills the beans... 

WORDWORTH 3.1 SE 

24 

Will the Special Edition of this program 
really run on an un expanded A1200? Chris 
Bailes finds out the truth. 

PAINT PROGRAMS 26 

Graeme Sandiford and R Shamms Mortier 
investigate 3 new paint programs. 

TUTORIALS 

COMMS 42 

Can politicians really be on line? Wavey 
■ Davey Winder investigates. 

CHESS 62 

Finally! A version you can actually play! Cliff 
Ramshaw makes his move in our on-going 
programming tutorial 

C PROGRAMMING 69 

Find those lost files with our home-grown 
finder utility. Toby Simpson gets busy. 

MUSIC 72 

Tim Tucker looks at a new 12-bit Assembler 
and offers hints and tips for successful 
sampling. 

ASSEMBLER 88 

Get the most out of your coverdisk with our 
on-going Assembler tutorials. 



NEWS 4 

Who owns Commodore? What happened at 
the World of Amiga Show? What hot new 
products are on the way? Find out ail this 
and more in our boffo news section! 

NEXT MONTH 1 4 

Can you face the future? Find out all about 
what will be changing in the next issue of 
Amiga Shopper! 

INDUSTRY COMMENT 75 

Find out what the people who really count 
think about the issues of the day. 
This month - Dale Larson talks about 
networking and Richard Baguley muses on 
Computer Shows. 

AMIGA SHOPPER 
AWARDS 39 

Your chance to vote for the great and the 
good and win a £400 spending spree! 

MARKETPLACE 44 

Amiga Shopper's own classified section. 
Check out the software and hardware 
bargains! 

AMIGA ANSWERS 49 

Our expert panel provides solutions to 
more of your real-life Amiga problems. 

MAIL ORDER 58 

Find out what bargains we have in store 
for you. 

READER ADS 46 

Pick up a bargain with our three pages of 
free reader advertisements! 

USER GROUPS 85 

Get in touch with Amiga users in your area 
and around the globe. 

BACK ISSUES 90 

Catch up on all those exciting articles you 
missed before. 

BUYING ADVICE 
AND ADVERTISERS 
INDEX 93 

You'd be mad to make an Amiga purchase 
before reading this vital advice. 

LETTERS 94 

What do you think about the future of the 
Amiga? Who do you think should buy the 
remains of Commodore? Express yourself 
and win £25! 

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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



NEWS 



COMMODORE 



- Said ta the UK? 



Still no firm decision, but both 
CEI and Commodore UK are 
confident of buy-out success. 



B 



oth bidders In the ongoing 
Commodore buy-out saga 
are confident of success. 
David Pleasance (head of the UK 
bid) is confident of signing a deal in 
early January, while Alex Amor 
(head of Creative Equipment 
International (CEI) believes that he 
will have tied up a deal with the 
liquidators before Christmas. 

Meanwhile, rumours were 
circulating that the bid from Florida 
based CEI has failed, as one of their 
main backers is rumoured to 
have pulled out. 

However, CEI Boss 
Alex Amor denied this. 
"I'm afraid that the 
rumour has been 
started by one of 
our competitors. 
Let's just leave it 
at that. We have 
been in this thing 
for the long term 
and once the 
package and the 
partners are brought 
to the table, the 
industry will look at it as 
a maintainable 
acquisition. One of our partners 
is one of the world's leading 
manufacturers, so I think this will be 
a big boost to the Amiga community." 

Although CEI are based in the US, 
the European market features very 
highly in their plans. "85% of our 
advertising budget is designed to 
push the A1200 and CD32 in the 
UK Market, and the budget is more 
than Commodore UK spent in the 
last four years of operation," 
Alex Amor announced. "Our 



preliminary plans call for 36 
individuals in the UK office." 

If his bid is successful, Alex 
hopes to get new Amigas into the 
shops in March or April. "I believe we 
can be successful with that if there 
are no obstacles. There have been a 
lot of changes taking place. It has 
been a dynamic situation. However, I 
think now we are in a situation where 
they realise that a closure (of the 
deal) needs to occur soon. We are 
talking to the engineers on a daily 
basis, so I think we have the ability 
to do something quickly and bring it 
back on line." 

The Amiga 
has always been 
successful, partly 
thanks to its 
excellent software 
bundles, so what 
would CEI be 
planning to 
get the Amiga 
back up where it 
belongs? 
"We would bring the 
A1200 back with a sort of 
re-introduction bundle, 
which would include 
somewhere between twelve and 
fourteen software titles. We would 
just like to show that we are back 
very strongly and that this is a 
company that understands the market 
better than the old one," 

If his bid succeeds, what would 
be the fate of Commodore UK? "I 
have made an offer several times 
that we were more than happy to 
work together (with Commodore UK), 
but they have not wanted to do that, 
so we will proceed on our course. We 




have good plans for the UK market. I 
know there are smoke and mirrors 
being held up in the UK by our 
competition, but 1 think this is going 
to come right down to the end." 

Meanwhile, David Pleasance is 
very confident about the prospects for 
his own bid. This was lodged with the 
liquidators on Tuesday 6th December, 
and a deposit was paid at the same 
time. "We have already put a 
substantial amount of money in the 
bank," he told Amiga Shopper at the 
World of Amiga Show. 

"There is a meeting of the 
Creditors on the 21st of December 
where we will try and get their 
approval for this bid. We don't need 
the creditors approval for the 
process, but it would be easier, 
because we want to take the 
jurisdiction from the US court (where 
if would take months) to the 
Bahamas. If the creditors agree... we 
will then go through the same court 
bidding process in the Bahamas as is 
compulsory in the US." This process 
is likely to take about three weeks 
from the time the creditors approve 
the deal, although this may take 
longer due to the Christmas break. 

THE BIDDING AND 
MYSTERY BACKERS 

The bidding works in a fairly simple 
way - Commodore UK make a bid and 
the other bidders have to bid half a 
million pounds more. Commodore 
then have the option to bid more. 
"That shouldn't take more than a day, 
or perhaps a couple of hours." David 
Pleasance said, "this (the buy-out 
process) has been longer than re-runs 
of Dallas, but three to four weeks 



shouldn't make much difference. We 
hope to make an announcement 
within three to four weeks (ie. mid 
January) that we have the Company". 

So who is putting up the money 
behind the UK bid? David Pleasance 
wasn't saying, but it sounds like 
somebody big. "I can't tell you (who 
the backers are), but when you find 
out you will realise that it is extremely 
substantial and will give the Amiga an 
immediate worldwide presence," said 
Pleasance. "It's not just a normal 
management buy-out. We would run 
the business organically and within 
three to five years go on to the stock 
exchange. We have to be very 
careful, because there are a lot of 
things at stake. Until the ink is dry, 
we can't tell everybody what we have 
planned, but we think you will be 
genuinely surprised." 

Although there is no firm 
information on who will win the 
bidding process and acquire the 
remains of Commodore International, 
it is very unlikely that any new Amigas 
will be in the shops until April. 

"I would say that, all things going 
according to plan, we would get 
Amigas back into the shops in April," 
Pleasance confirmed. "The biggest 
problem is ordering the components. 
We have stocks of the custom chips 
in our manufacturing plant... the 
main problem lies with parts such as 
the DRAM, because Commodore 
obviously doesn't have an allocation 
at the moment. Fortunately, we 
have a lot of support from the 
peripheral manufacturers. It's just a 
question of the timescale... you order 
something and it takes twelve weeks 
to manufacture." 




ext month sees some big 
Improvements to your favourite 
Amiga magazine. The March Issue, 
on sale Tuesday 7th February, will be 
the first to feature two coverdisks, 
packed with all manner of wonderful 
serious Amiga stuff - complete programs 
(worth up to £100 In some casesl), 
invaluable utilities and exclusive 



upgrades to existing packages. 

Inside there's the same essential and 
unmissable mix of reviews, tutorials and 
advice, but there's a whole new section 
dedicated to helping you get the most out 
of your coverdisks (and not just the ones 
on this magazine either, but also 
coverdisks from our sister magazine 
Amiga Format and elsewhere). We'll be 



kicking off with ten pages of stuff on 
AMOS Professional, as found on the 
January Amiga Format coverdisk. 

So how are we going to pack all of 
this into Amiga Shopper? Simple - more 
pages! Each issue of Amiga Shopper will 
be thicker, with all of the pages printed in 
full colour on glossy paper. The cost of 
the magazine will be rising to £3.95, but 
we will continue to give you the best value 
for money for the serious Amiga user. 

"Shopper will of course continue 
to be the only 100% serious Amiga 
magazine worth considering," said 
Future's Amiga Group Publisher, Steve 
Carey, "but the addition of coverdisks 
means we'll be able to provide much more 
interactive tutorials, as well as offering 
valuable, full-price programs." The all-new, 
singing, dancing Amiga Shopper is on sale 
in all newsagents of taste and distinction, 
from Tuesday 7th February. Demand is 
sure to be high, so reserve your copy now! 



The price printed in 
our review of 
Personal Paint 6.1 1: 



£54.95. but if you buy 
the program before 
the end of January, 
and mention that you 
are a reader of Amiga 
Shopper, you can buy 
a copy of Personal 
Fonts Maker for an 
additional £5. 

Ramiga 
International are on 
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



WORLD OF AMIGA SHOW NEWS 



OPALVISION MODULES HERE AT LAST? 



White Knight Technology were showing a very 
late Beta version of the long awaited Opalvision 
Video Processor at the recent World of Amiga Show. 

The developers (Centaur Developments) had originally 
planned to add a single chip to the Opalvision main board 
to give the video effects. 

However, they have now decided to expand this to a 
whole new Zorro board, which offers a wide range of 
features, including user definable digital video effects 
(where you can take two video sources and cut between 
them in a variety of weird and unusual ways). 

Any video signal can also be displayed in a resizable 
window on the workbench, so you can watch neighbours 
while raytracing. There is also a 35 Ms Character 
Generator and a broadcast quality genlock included as 
part of the card, which can cope with Composite, S-Video 



or component video signals. 

There are still a few bugs in the software and 
hardware, but White Knight are hopeful that these minor 
problems will be fixed in time for a February release. The 
price for the Video Processor is expected to be around 
£1075, with the Opalvision main board (which is also 
required} costing around £650. 

White Knight were also showing the Digital 
Broadcaster Elite Non-linear video editing system. This is 
an improved version of the Digital Broadcaster 32 system 
previewed in our October issue. This new card can also 
cope with digital Dl signals and Betacam SP component 
signals, moving it even further into the high end of non- 
linear video editing at a fraction of the price of systems on 
other platforms. 

White Knight Technology are on w 0192 822321. 



Ramiga were demonstrating the 
Silicon Studio Digital Audio 
Workstation system. This is 
based around an A4000 (fitted 
with a Warp accelerator) and is 
designed as a high end audio 
workstation. 

Available as a complete 
workstation or as an addon card 
for the A4000. this system can 
mix up to 24 tracks of full CD 
quality sound at once, if you can 
get away with a lower sample 
rate (32Khz; up to 32 tracks can 
be mixed at once. 

The Silicon Studio system is 
distributed by Ramiga Int on 
= 01690 770304 



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ordon Harwood Computers are 
- distributing the Imagine 3.0 
enhancer CD. produced by the 
German company Oberland. 

This disc contains several 
hundred models, textures and fonts, 
including a selection of rather nice 
images of clouds, sunny beaches 
and the like for use as backdrops. 

The famous German Imagine 
user Horst Kolodziejczyk has 
contributed a selection of obiects 



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the CD Is this excellent 

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and some excellent renders of them. 

The disc costs £49.95 and is 
available in the UK from Gordon 
Harwood's are on = 01773 836781. 



The Imagine 3.0 enhancer CD co 
several excellent images by the noted 
German animator Horst Kolodziejczyk. 



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CYBER GET REAL 

■% hase 5 digital products were 



showing two rather nice looking 
new projects on the Gordon 
Harwood's stand - CyberVison 64 
and the Cyberstorm accelerator. 

The Cyberstorm is the world's 
first 68060 accelerator for the 
Amiga, and Phase 5 were showing a 
working prototype. This board is 
modular, so you can upgrade to a 
CPU with a higher clock speed when 
they become available. 

At present, the manufacturing of 
this board is being held back by the 
lack of any 68060 chips, but 
Motorola hope to start shipping 
these in January, and production 
models of this accelerator should be 
available in February. 

initially, only models running at 
50Mhz will be available. This gives a 



pretty significant speed increase - a 
render which took 10 m ins 34 
seconds on a standard A4000/040 
would only take 2 minutes 45 
seconds on one fitted with a 
Cyberstorm 68060 accelerator. 

The sysinfo speed test gives a 
rather nice 27.79 million floating 
point instructions per second, against 
4.84 for a standard A4000/040. 

MODULAR NATURE 

The modular nature of this cards 
means that you can ad additional 
features as you need them, 
and Phase 5 are planning an I/O 
module, which will have a fast 
SCSI-1 1 interface, an Ethernet 
controller and a high speed serial 
port. Prices for the Cyberstorm have 
not yet been finalised. 



The Cybervision 64 is a new 24- 
bit graphics card. It's based around 
the Trio64 graphics chip (as used on 
a variety of high end PC graphics 
cards), which incorporates a powerful 
64-bit blitter which can throw data 
around at a ston kingly fast 100 Mb 
per second. 

With a suitably fast CPU, the card 
can transfer data to and from the 
Amigas memory at the extremely 
good rate of 16Mb per second. 

Also built into the card is a 
hardware planar-to-chunky converter 
similar to the one built into the CD32. 
Phase 5 are planning to ship this 
card in quantity in February. 

Phase 5 are on " 01049 69 
5481844. 

Gordon Harwood's are on 
« 01773 836781. 



HiSoft were showing their new 
Squirrel SCSI Super-triple CD 
ROM drive. This triple speed 
mechanism boasts a pretty good 
data transfer rate of 510K per 
second, is multl session 
compatible and has a very good 
190Ms average access time It's 
priced at £249 

Hisoft were also showing 
their latest product, the Squirrel 
SCSI interface. This plugs into 
the PCMCIA slot of the A1200 or 
A600, and can support up to 
seven SCSI devices such as Hard 
Drives, Tape streamers, DAT 
drives, etcetera. 

It has a full SCSI 2 interface 
and is also very reasonably 
priced at £69.95. 



Power Computing were showing 
an early version of their 24-bit 
hand scanner. Although the 
software is still in Beta testing. 
the image quality produced by 
this scanner looks excellent. You 
will, however, need a pretty 
powerful machine to cope with 



resolution 24-bit images contain. 

Power Computing are on *? 
01234 273000. 



Jim Drew (designer of the 
Em plant emulation system) was 
at the show, demonstrating the 
latest version of his Mac 
emulator and a pre-release 
version of the PC emulator. 

Although this is not complel 
it was shown running several bi 
of diagnostic software. Jim is 



although there is still some way 
to go in the coding process. 

The Emplant is distributed in 
the UK by Blitfersoft on 
o 0908 220196. 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



NEWS 



SON OF MOTION MASTER 



M eridian Software Distribution 
are now supplying PC Task 
version 3.0. 

It costs £79.95 provides 
software emulation of 80286- 
based PCs. An upgrade from 
version 2.0 is available for 
£34.95 plus £2.00 P&P. 

PC Task 3.0 has plenty of 
new features and improved multi- 
tasking. New features include: 
support for HD floppies and CD- 
ROM, 256 colours for AGA 
machines, support for up to 
16Mb of RAM, compatibility 
with graphics boards, emulation 
of several graphics modes 
including SVGA and serial 
mouse emulation. 

Version 3.0 can be 
purchased directly from Meridian 
Software Distribution on » 0181 
543 3500. 

Upgrades can be obtained 
from Emerald Creative 
Technology Ltd by sending your 
original program disk and order^ 
to: 54 Wandle Bank, London, 
SW19 1DW. 



The Fusion genlock, produced by 
Amitek, is aimed at both the 
home and professional market. 

For a price of £99 you'll get 
he genlock and a free copy of 
the Scala HT-100 video-titling 
package. 

The genlock has a simple 
design, just three setting controls 
and a slider. The slider controls 
the fading and the other 
controllers select the display 
modes, which can be picture only, 
graphics only and overlay. 

The Amitek Fusion is 



Silica w 0181 309 1111. 



US Robotics have cut the priceof 
their Courier V.34 corporate 
desktop modem by £100, from 
£499 to £399. 

A flash ROM upgrade for 
existing users of the Courier 
V.Fast Class product launched in 
May 1994 can be obtained by 
logging on to US Robotics BBS 
and downloading the appropriate 
software. 



etroGrafx have just finished work on volume two 

_i of their Motion Master collection. The Motion 
Master collections are tools that add new features to 
Lightwave. This volume comprises four new programs: 
Chlld2World, Point at, Volume Cube and Wobbler. 

Although Wobbier sounds like an unpleasant 
affliction or something unsavoury, it's actually a useful 
animation tool, it can be used to simulate wobbly 
substances such as jelly or fat on figure, ft achieves 
this effect by giving control over the object's blobbyness 
and damping. 

Point at performs a function that should really have 
been included in Lightwave 3.5, Using Point at, any 
object can target another. This is particularly useful 
when you are animating scenes that involve tracking 
motions, such as a gunturret targeting a plane. 

Child2World is a coordinate translator. You can load 
a scene file and produce separate motion files for 
parent and child objects. This stops un-parented objects 
from snapping back to their original position. 

Volume cube can be used to define a volume 3D 
space. You can then place other objects inside this 




I The Motion Master coil 
that add new features to Lightwave, 



volume. Velocities can be given and then a scene will be 
generated with all the objects bouncing around inside 
the volume. 

If you would like to find out more about Motion 
Master Volume 2, or other MetroGrafx product, contact 
Premier Vision on « 0171 721 7050. 



TERMITE TAKES BITE OUT OF COMMS 

Termite is a new comms package from Oregon 
Research. Termite is being distributed in the UK by 
HlSoft for £39,95. 

It is intended to be easy to use and flexible. It has support 
for speeds from 300 to 115,200bps and uses XPR libraries to 
add transfer protocols. 

One of the programs best features is its user-configurable 
button-bar. You can assign macros, ARexx scripts and even 
programs. You can also add your own IFF images as icons. 

The program can 
follow your actions and 
record them as a 
script. This is 
particularly useful for 
recording logging-on 
procedures. 

Hi Soft can be 
contacted on • 0525 
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BULLETIN BOARD RAID 

The ELS PA (European Leisure Software 
Publishers Association) have meet with more 
success In their fight against software piracy. 
ELSPA's Crime Unit raided the Birmingham-based 
Krypt BBS. 

As a result of the raid over £3,000 of computer 
equipment was confiscated and the bulletin board's 
operator has been fined £500. As with most BBSs, 
users uploaded games and in return received other 
pirated games. 

This, along with other similar operations, latest 
raid confirms the ELSPA's intention to reduce piracy 
in Europe. The Crime Unit's Chief Investigator, John 
Loader, has been reported as saying, "ELSPA has 
calculated that the cost of leisure software piracy is 
£778. 5M in the UK alone. Obviously this degree of 
loss cannot continue unchecked which is why ELSPA 
has been so active in pursuing software pirates and 
bringing them to justice". 

Amiga Shopper wishes them every success. 



MEET OUR SISTERS 



Don't buy a turkey this 
- --i Christmas... 



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FODDER 2 



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Jonathan Davles Is the self-styled 
Editor of Amiga Power, the 
world's least serious and most 
attitudinal Amiga magazine. 

"Hasten back to the newsagent 
and you might just catch one of the 
remaining Christmas Amiga Powers. 
(It's blue, with "Don't buy a turkey 



this Christmas" written on it, in case 
you're having trouble finding it. There 
are three disks on the front, with 
demos of Cannon Fodder 2, Super 
Stardust, Powerdrive, Overlord and 
Gunfighters on them. And there's 
some stuff about choosing the best 
games for Christmas, which could 
probably be adapted to apply to the 
New Year). Hurry, hurry!" 

Sue Grant Is the deputy editor of 
Amiga Format, the world's 
biggest selling Amiga magazine. 

"in the fabulous February issue of 
Amiga Format we have wired up 
Suemylove and plugged her into the 
Internet. But, seriously folks, Amiga 
Shopper's own gorgeous Mr Baguley 
cross pollinates with AF to explain 
Comms and the Internet in explicit 
detail. Plus! We have games reviews 
of the latest Lemmings, a head-to- 



head between beat-em -ups Shaq Fu 
and Shadowfighter and a look at the 
Battle For The Ashes. And don't miss 
your chance to win your very own 
snowboard and snowboarding gear 
with Wei la Shockwaves." 




AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 





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Supports all Amiga resolutions (including AGA) 

Control the software via Mouse, Keyboard or Game Pad 

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8 COMMODORE FEATURE 




At the 
crossroads 

Commodore's history has been marked by a 
series of crucial turning points, Tim Green 
wonders whether its latest crossroads is the start 
of a new direction, or the beginning of the end. 



In my opinion,,, 

o find out what the people that 
count in the Amiga world think of 
what has been going on with 
Commodore, we sent the following 
letter to a number of retailers, 
developers and the like. Over the next 
few pages are a few of their replies. 

Dear Amiga person. 
As part of our ongoing coverage of 
the Commodore liquidation saga, we 
are attempting to ascertain how 
prominent industry figures, like 
yourself, feel about Commodore and 
the future of the Amiga. 



you could fax your answers to the 
following questions back to me as 
soon as possible. 

Sincerely, 

Richard Baguley 
Editor. 



The Questions 



Why do you think Commodore 



2. What lessons should the new 
owners of the Amiga learn from this? 



3. Which of the bidders do you favour? 

4. What support would you like to see 

from the new owners of the Amiga? 

5. How do you see the future of the 
Amiga? 



First there was the typewriter. Then came 
the calculator. The boom times arrived 
with the computer. Now, it's all down to 
the liquidator. Yes, Commodore's history has 
been marked by a series of crucial turning points. 
The question is whether Its latest crossroads is 
the start of a new direction or the beginning of 
the end. 

Forty years after a typewriter repair company 
called Commodore Business Machines was 
founded in Brooklyn, a one page press release 
announced that the company was preparing the 
first stages of an "orderly voluntary liquidation". 
Commodore Electronics, the US manufacturing and 
distribution subsidiary, and the overall holding 
company Commodore International transferred 
their assets to trustees. 

These "trustees" sought the protection of the 
Bahamian courts where the company is registered. 
It was not quite liquidation - closer in fact to what 
the US calls "chapter 

11" in which a period of ^^^^^^^^^^^™ 
protection from creditors 
gives the money men 
time to work out a rescue 
plan. But, whatever the 
technical fties, it was 
definitely the end of the 
old Commodore order. 

That was April 29, 
1994. At time of writing 
in early December there 

is still no change in the overall situation and no 
buyer. Speculation has been intense. Rumours 
have connected Sony, Philips, Nintendo and 
Samsung with the company (although only the 
Samsung speculation seems to have had any 
basis in fact). Now though it looks to be a two way 
chicken shoot between a Commodore UK 
management buy-out and a bid from US 
electronics distributor Creative Equipment 
International. Unfortunately the uncertainty has 
meant that Christmas 1995 will be the first for 
nearly a decade to have no new Amiga bundle. 

The Maidenhead team talk of a great fight. 
They claim to have a backer with deep pockets 



"By 1991 me Amiga 500 

was selling 250,000 units a 

year - Commodore was 

apparently untouchable" 



and a public profile. "You wouldn't believe how big 
and well-known they are" said one source. 
Tantalisingly, they won't say any more. But the 
team must be getting restless. Commodore UK's 
bid has a lot going for it. Besides this mystery 
backer it can point to years of success in the 
British market white its global parent lurched from 
disaster to disaster. For a while the bid looked a 
dead cert too. Joint MDs David Pleasance and 
Colin Proudfoot were so expectant that, in October, 
tickets for the launch party of Amiga International 
(for that is its nominated name) were sent to the 
UK's Amiga community. The party is now on hold. 

CEI's confidence is high too. The company, 
which has built its knowledge of the Amiga market 
by distributing the A1200 and A4000 in the US, is 
said to have lodged $1 million with the liquidators, 
although some insiders doubt it. This cash, if it 
exists, is non-returnable if CEI wins the bid which 
is a way of guaranteeing that it won't pull out later. 

Whichever proposal is 
^^^^^^^^^^^^™ recommended to the 
shareholders (and it 
seems unlikely that 
neither will be 
acceptable) Commodore 
will re-emerge in a 
slimmed down, more 
targeted version of its 
former self. Territories 
with limited possibilities 
- much of continental 
Europe, Australasia etc - will be served by 
appointed third party distributors, rather than 
Commodore's own satellite set-ups. And the 
hardware range will be aimed at a more 
specific user group than has been the case in 
the more grandiose moments of Commodore's 
colourful history. 

Whoever takes over won't have to look too far 
back in time to absorb the potential pitfalls that 
lurk in the leisure computing game. You could 
argue that the thing that must be feared most is 
success itself. The fact is, if you analyse 
Commodore's recent history, you'll find that things 
started to go downhill at the very moment when 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



COMMODORE FEATURE 9 



WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - DAVE HAYNIE 



One of Commodore's foremost hardware 
designers, Dave now works with 
Jeff Porter (and quite a few other ex- 



Commodore staff) for Scala in Pennsylvania, 
within 10 minutes drive of the old 
Commodore Headquarters. 



they couldn't have got much better. 

Back in 1985 Commodore launched the 
machine which would come to define the whole 
company -the Amiga. Based on multi -tasking 
Motorola architecture it was a fearsome 
technological feat (at the time). But, as anyone 
in the business will testify, it is marketing, not 
technology, which brings success. After all, not 
many of us listen to our precious Cliff Richard 
compilations on DAT or watch our erotic thrillers 
on betamax. 

So it took a while for the praised heaped on 
the Amiga's capabilities to be backed up by 
consumer cash. Commodore, of course, had 
tasted success before. h^h^hbmhm^ 
Having become a 
household name thanks 
to its range of 
calculators in the 
seventies it successfully 
entered the computer 
market with the green- 
screened PET in 1977. 
This was followed by the 
equally popular Vic 20 
and later the 
Commodore 64. Both 

machines were based around the 6502 processor. 
This was crucial because the same choice had 
been made by Acorn and by Apple in its early 
models. This meant that there was a substantial 
amount of programming expertise for the 6502, 
Software support was strong. 

The C64 was an unprecedented cash cow. To 
date an amazing 13 million have been sold 
worldwide. And they continue to sell in modest 
numbers in developing countries and on mail order 



"The Maidenhead team 

talk of a great fight 

They claim to have a backer 

with deep pockets and a 

public profile." 



in the UK. Commodore developed both cassette- 
based and cartridge-based versions of the 
machine, evidence that the company had a highly 
developed sense of the consumer mentality. 

By the time the Amiga came along, the huge 
boom in leisure computing that had built up 
around the C64 - the Sinclair Spectrum and the 
Amstrad had subsided. It was time to start again. 
But it wasn't clear to anybody how Commodore 
intended to do it. The Amiga 1000 cost over a 
grand - hardly consumerville. And yet Commodore 
was no expert in the professional market. 

"Cometh the hour, cometh the man." Steve 
Franklin was too much of a bruiser to be described 
m ^^^^^^^^^^ as a white knight, but 

when he arrived as MD of 
Commodore UK things 
began to fall into shape. 

At the time, the 
fledgling 16-bit market 
that the Amiga wanted to 
gate-crash was 
dominated by the Atari 
ST. This was a supreme 
irony since the ST had 
been created by Shiraz 
1 Shivji, formerly 
Commodore's hardware designer, and Atari was 
being run by none other than Jack Tramiel. But the 
electronic wife-swapping didn't stop there. The 
Amiga was designed by a team that included Jay 
Miner, the man who was behind the astronomically 
successful Atari games console. 

All of which is interesting, if somewhat 
gloriously irrelevant to the battle that lay ahead for 
the 16-bit market. Franklin quickly recognised that 
the Amiga needed to be pitched as the ultimate 



WHERE A 
THEY NOV 





In my opinion, 

; olyon Ralph is Technical Director 
5 i of Aliriathera Systems, the 
company responsible for Amiga 
packages such as Photogenics. As 
such, he's been at the cutting edge 
of Amiga development and certainly 
has strong opinions on the questions 
we asked... 



1 Simply because of bad leadership, 
Medhi Ali was given good advice 
throughout his time at Commodore but 
chose to ignore it (for example by 
launching the Amiga 600 which nobody 
really wanted), 



2 Take more notice of your users 
and developers. Build machines 
people want to buy Keep on 

producing innovative products and 
forget trying to 'crack' the US market. 
It won't happen! 



3 Both Commodore UK and CEI have 
both said very positive things about the 
future of the Amiga and either will 
almost certainly run the company 
very successfully, however. CEI have 
no real experience in running this sort 
of operation and are very much an 
unknown entity' in Europe 

Commodore UK understand the 
European market much better and 
already have good links with European 
developers and distributors Given a 
chance to have control of the Amiga I 
think Commodore UK would do a 
superb job. 



4 Commitment to the future of Amiga. 
Currently we've got various rumours 
floating around about future Amigas" 
that will be using RISC chips, a new 
graphics chipset and run Windows NT. 

Now. that may be a very nice 
computer but it isn't an Amiga! A 
definite statement about the futuie of 
the Amiga operating systems (i.e the 
Amiga we know and love) and whether 
it will be developed further 



5 It's gone through a very bleak year, 
but the Amiga will survive There simply 
isn't anything else on the market to 
compete with the Amiga 1200 (except 
the Archimedes and Atari Falcon, 
neither of which have had anything like 
the success of the Amiga) 

People are desperate to buy Amiga 
1200s and 4000s When the 
production lines start again the sales 
will pick up rapidly. 

The future of the Amiga is good.. 



(left) are currently involved in a bid for a 
management buy-out of the remains of 
Commodore UK. For the latest news on this. 
" i to the News section on page 4. 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1 995 



1 COMMODORE FEATURE 



In my opinion... 

<^' imon Armstrong is the head bloke 
H at Acid Software, who are 
responsible for trie excellent Blitz 
Basic programming language and 
boffo games such as Skidmarks and 
Guardian. Although he's based in New 
Zealand, he was one of the first 
people to reply to our fax: 

1. It was a company controlled by 
financiers rather than industry people, 
ie the upper management did not have 
any clue about computers what so ever, 

2. They should not let themselves be 
dictated by a bunch of financiers. 

3. I feel sorry for both of them. The 
fact that the liquidators have drawn the 
bidding out to four months longer than 
necessary and hence lost a lot of 
momentum is completely crazy. 

Either way, this Christmas is the 
last before the 64 bit consoles hit the 
shelves and effectively the last for the 
Amiga to do well as far as home 
entertainment machine is concerned. 

4. They need to concentrate on 
shipping CD32/A1200 at a very cheap 
price. The range of software won't be 
matched by 64bit stuff for at least 
another 2 years. 

The jump from 8 bit to 16 bit 
machines saw gameplay drop and 
graphics get better. The move from 16 
to 64 bit is going to be the same. 

We have faith that Amiga 
developers will continue to lead the way 
in many areas as far as cool games are 
concerned, and AG A still has many 
secrets to be discovered in the 
graphics department that's for sure... 



native version of the Amiga OS for the 
PowerPC chip. As Amiga OS is already 
display independent and the DOS is 
pretty simple 1 can't see a major hurdle 
in running Amiga software on the very 
cool new PowerPC systems that are 
being shipped by both Apple and IBM. 

If I want to play games I'll use a 
CD32, if I want to render, animate, dtp 
etc. etc. I want the most power for my 
dollar and of course Intuition on the 
end of my mouse°and PowerPC is the 
most logical step to take, not some 
very expensive 256 bit wide graphics 
chip. Motorola is too cool. 

So if I bought the Amiga 
technology, I'd employ a few bright kids 
to port the OS to PowerPC and mass 
produce standard AGA machines for 
a dime a dozen to keep us games 




Hell who wants to shell out 50 quid 
every time they want to buy a game? 
Not Amiga gamers that's for sure. 



leisure machine. By the time the A500 arrived 
prices tumbled, first to £499 and then £399. He 
also realised that there's no hardware market 
without decent software. The software publishers 
were about to get the Franklin treatment. 

At the PCW show in 1987 he regaled about 60 
of them with his plans for market domination. At 
the end, one stood up and told him that his 
company would not be developing for the Amiga as 
"you have absolutely no chance of 
succeeding. ..and anyway the Atari has got a huge 
lead". Franklin's response was terse. "We will 
make the Amiga the machine that everyone wants 
to own. If you fail to write software, you do so at 
your own peril- I have ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

nothing more to say." In 
this one episode you can 
see how the Commodore 
boss combined 
salesmanship, business 
nous and the ability to 
frighten the life out of 
people. It was a potent 
mix. 

Slowly Franklin and 
his team (which included 

a Sales Manager called » 

David Pleas a nee) began 

to turn things around. They did mailshots to C64 
owners pitching the Amiga as the ultimate 
upgrade, they persuaded Commodore US to 
release funds for advertising and promotion and 
they courted the high street chains in an effort to 
secure shelf space for the machine. 

Progress was made. But the clincher came 
when Commodore persuaded Ocean Software to 
bundle an unreleased game with the machine. The 
Batman pack changed everything for the Amiga. 
Suddenly the machine was synonymous with the 
newest, most exciting software in the business. 
And in one stroke the announcement of the Amiga 
Christmas bundle went from information to event. 

By 1991 the Amiga 500 was selling 250,000 



units a year. Commodore was apparently 
untouchable. It couldn't last. It was at this time 
that Sega and Nintendo began to creep into the 
leisure market. Correctly, Commodore assumed 
that it could hang on to its user base by 
emphasising the versatility of a games playing 
home computer. But it underestimated just how 
huge the console market would become and how 
many of its existing users would switch to plug 'n' 
play machines. 

To put some distance between Commodore 
and the "toy" market of Sega and Nintendo the 
global management decided to move closer to the 
"serious" computer market by diversifying into the 
PCs. This was a terrible 



"The Commodore 

organisation was a tangled 

web - it has even been 

likened to the Maxwell 

corporation." 



mistake. The PC 
business was, and still 
is, massively 
overcrowded, and it has 
made casualties of 
companies far more 
committed than 
Commodore. It was 
always unlikely that 
Commodore wouid 
succeed against the 
• financial muscle of Dell, 

Compaq and IBM or the 
pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap expertise of Amstrad. 

There were several embarrassments along the 
way. The branded "Powerline" range was not 
branded at all. Machines came with stickers that 
high-flying executive customers were invited to slap 
on the front of their monitors. Overall the PC 
division wasn't working. By the end of 1992 it had 
been closed down. 

A similar cul-de-sac was the attempt to enter 
the education market. The salesmen who handled 
this part of the business had a much rougher time 
than their counterparts in the leisure division. But 
then they were fighting to win over a generally 
tech no phobic user-base who had their Acorns and 
were quite happy with them thank you very much. 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



COMMODORE FEATURE 11 



WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - IRVING GOULD 



Former Chief Executive Officer, 74-year-old 
Irving Gould is now "licking his wounds", 
having lost a personal fortune with 



Commodore, Gould has other business 
interests and is still pursuing them, but his 
work is limited because of his age. 



WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - JEFF PORTER 



Former director of product development, 
Porter is now working in Pennsylvania 
for multimedia company Scaia. He is thought to 
be working on Scala's proposed set top box for 



interactive TV, Of nine employees of Scala 
based in Pensyllvania, eight used to work for 
Commodore. The ninth used to work for GVP, 
who are based within a few miles of Scala. 







Another problem was the sheer number of 
configurations made available. The A2000? 
A1500? A3 000? Which one to choose? 

Education and business both looked like costly 
attempts to persuade the trade that Commodore 
was a serious company with a serious product that 
could play great games... by the way. 

With hindsight it was 

a foolhardy philosophy. 

And it reached its nadir 

with the CDTV affair. 

Although acknowledged 

as a disaster now, at first 

Commodore deserved 

plaudits for the way it 

was prepared to gamble 

on a dramatic new 

platform. After all CDTV _ _»_^_^_^^_ 

was the first CD-based 

multimedia machine. It could even be forgiven for 

pitching the machine at the family and styling it as 

a living room device. At the time this was an 

understandable assumption to make. 

But other errors were less forgivable. The 
press advertising campaign was truly awful. It 
comprised a line of text which didn't make a lot of 
sense unfurling in a spiral which was impossible to 
read. Given that buzz-words like interactivity and 
multimedia meant even less to the average punter 
then than they do now, maybe the ads should have 
been clearer. 

Then there was the edict issued to retailers 
that the CDTV was a family entertainment product 
not to be displayed next to games machines. 
Commodore even dictated how many feet apart 
CDTVs and Amigas should be! So even though 



"The A4000 was widely 

acclaimed as a superior 

multimedia platform to the 

PC and the Mac." 



there was a huge Amiga user base waiting to open 
its collective wallet, Commodore was too fixed on 
jostling with the VCRs and the hi-fis for the family 
purse to pursue it. 

Finally CDTV contravened the golden rule about 
good software selling hardware. Commodore itself 
began publishing discs in order to guarantee a 
supply of available 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^™ software at launch. 
Trouble is, none of it 
was much good. There 
was boring gardening 
discs, lamentable 
edutainment discs (have 
you seen A Bun For 
Barney?) and limp 
games. And even when 
________^^^^^ the Amiga publishers 

began to port over their 
hits they were often more unwieldy than their 
floppy counterparts. 

Basically, there was no reason at all to buy the 
machine apart from addiction to Amiga technology. 
Fortunately for Commodore there were, and still 
are, quite a few Amigoids about. They must have 
been the 5,000 who bought the machine in its 
first few months. 

Slowly it emerged that CDTV was too 
advanced a concept for the public to grasp (they're 
only just beginning to embrace Philips CD-i after 
nearly three years) and not nearly good enough 
technically. By the end of 1992 Commodore 
had completely reversed the machine's positioning 
and begun calling it the Amiga CDTV. By then it 
was too late. 

The PC diversion, the decision to chase the 




In my opinion, 

;, ryan Cobley of the First Computer 
_2_- Centre Is not afraid of voicing 
his opinions... 

1. There are 3 main reasons for 
Commodore International demise. 

• Bad management 

• Very poor dealer customer support 

• Poor marketing. 

Reasons 2 and 3 are directly linked to 
reason 1. 

2. The new owners should take notice 
of established dealers and their 
requirements. 

They should have a long term 
business and marketing strategy. 

They should invest in and 
communicate with their staff rather 
than rule, from above. 

They should learn the value of 
customer service and support, take 
responsibility for their products and not 
try to delegate their responsibility to a 
third party contractor. 

They should attempt to support 
their customers with products that are 
expandable, innovative and 
upgradeable and which are not going 
to be replaces by some similar product 
six months later, viz A500+ A600 and 
the CDTV. 

3. I personally do not favour any one of 
the bidders against any others. 

The most important thing is that 
the people who succeed have the 
vision, determination, patience 
expertise and finances to put the 
Amiga back where it belongs in the 
marketplace as a highly desirable 
piece of kit. 

4. More openness and less exclusivity ■ 
with distribution. 

Easier contactability with the 
people who can make things happen. 

Better margins with sensible prices 
that will enable us to give better 
support to the customer. 

A higher standard of business 
ethics and integrity. 

Proper trust and respect between 
the dealer and Commodore. 

Better support for the customer. 

5. Dodgy! The Amiga has to become a 
multi platform machine and RISC-based 
to stay in the modern market place. 

It must have multi format media 
capabilities. 

I only hope that if, and when, this 
happens, there is some room left for it 



IGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



1 2 COMMODORE FEATURE 



In my opinion... 

j ohn Arundel is Marketing Manager 
1 of Silica Distribution Ltd, one of 

the biggest computer distributors in 

the UK. 



1. Commodore International had grown 
so large that marketing and 
promotional efforts had decentralised 

Each subsidiary was doing its own 
different thing and the company last 
the power of a single global 
promotional thrust. 

The impact of new product was 
diluted as a result. 

The company took its eye off of the 
Amiga, its golden product, and dabbled 
in the area of MS-DOS at a time when 
the market was nor very welcoming and 
margins were non-existent. This meant 
that valuable resources, such as time 
and money, were diverted from the 
Amiga range 

A classic error was the introduction 
of the A1200 too early. The market 
was not ready and the A600, which 
was still in its ascendancy was killed 
off as a result. 

2. I think the mam lesson to be learned 
is the value and importance of 
specialising in areas you know ell and 
which are profitable to you. 

Constant interfacing with dealers 
and end-users would provide 
feedback which is useful in 
determining product strategy. 

3. David Pleasance and his team are 
fully committed to the Amiga an its 
users. I would favour them as I know 
they could do a good job. 

4. One of the most important things 



communication. 



I hope that the new owners 
maintain a good relationship with their 
distributors and dealers and via the 
specialist press with their end-users. 

If they keep the market 



informed and respond to its 
requirements, then they will be 
providing first class support. 

5. We aie looking forward to a bright 



The enquiries and orders we are 



Amiga market is still very much alive 
and ready for an explosion of activity 
just as soon as David Pleasances bid 

is accepted! 



education market and the CDTV debacle put strain 
on the revenue building of the A500 just when 
the product started to lose its stranglehold on the 
UK market. It didn't help that the US company's 
top execs continued to live the high-life. A private 
jet used mostly by the man at the top Medhi AN 
was not jettisoned until a few weeks before 
voluntary liquidation was announced. There's even 
a rumour that Ali had his own full-time car and 
chauffeur in the UK, despite spending just a few 
days a month here. 

There were other signs that all was not well. 
Steve Franklin's golden reign came to an ugly end 
in summer 1992 when he left the company amid 
accusations of financial irregularity arising from his 
involvement with FMC, Commodore's appointed 
maintenance company. ^^^ MBHM ^^ H ^ H 
He was succeeded by his 
deputy Kefly Sumner, who 
had joined Commodore 
from school and risen 
through the ranks. During 
Sumner's year-long 
tenure there was much 
belt-tightening, including 
numerous redundancies 
and the relocation of 
machine manufacture to 
Scotland. But there were —*■ i^ — — 
also successful launches for the Amiga 1200 and 
Amiga 4000 - machines which unveiled the 32-bit 
AG A chipset for the first time. 

The latter machine was widely acclaimed as a 
superior multimedia platform to the PC and the 
Mac. It was adopted by musicians like Batman 
composer Danny Elfman and used by designers in 
Hollywood to create special effects for shows like 
Babylon 5. Unfortunately there were occasions 
when Commodore was not in a position to take 
advantage of its fantastic technological headstart. 
For many months in 1993 the UK company simply 
could not source any machines to sell to a hungry 
list of potential clients. Presumably these users 
switched to PCs and Macs and were lost forever. 

Further evidence of a creeping desperation 



"Commodore UK can point 

to years of success in the 

British market while its 

global parent lurched from 
disaster to disaster." 



came in the immediacy of decisions to cut prices. 
The A600 fell from £399 to £299 with little 
forewarning, and repeated the trick in falling to 
£199 some months later. This didn't please 
dealers who had bought at the old price and found 
themselves losing money on overstocks. 
Customers who paid the old price were 
understandably aggrieved too. 

Sumner left for Gametek in April 1993 without 
leaving an obvious successor inside Maidenhead. 
It was time for David Pleasance to return from a 
jaunt in the US and continental Europe. He came 
back to a very different set-up from the one which 
had made Commodore a forceful presence in toe 
late eighties. Many senior figures had departed - 
CDTV guru Jim Mackonochie and technical expert 
■■■■■■■(■■■■■■■■■■■ Clive Fort to Mindscape, 
marketing manager 
Gary Lewis to Gametek, 
PR man Andrew Ball to 
an agency in Cheshire - 
and the company was 
now being run by a 
small team. 

Nothing wrong with that 
except that this select 
band was preparing to do 
battle with Sega, 
1 Nintendo, 3DO and 
Philips for a stake in the CD console market. 

In July 1993 The Big Breakfast's Chris Evans 
welcomed invited guests to the Science Museum 
in London for the gala launch of the Amiga CD32. 
This 32-bit console was acknowledged - even by 
Pleasance himself - to be the make-or-break 
machine for the corporation. It must have been a 
significant day. Even Medhi Ali turned up. 

Bullish predictions of 250,000 sales across 
Europe by Christmas were made. They were soon 
exposed as over-ambitious. Overall, Amiga CD32 
received a good reception from press and 
developers. But even the best machines take two 
or three years to establish themselves. Six months 
was never going to be enough. And Commodore 
UK was not helped by slow software support, a 






WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - MEDHI ALI 



Ali was the president of the company and 
the man who must take most of the 
blame for its demise. Hardly a "consensus" 
manager, he often terrified his staff. 



Ali left the company a few days after the 
liquidators were appointed. He is now said to 
be unemployed and looking for a job. But he's 
not short of a few bob. 



— — - 



AMIGA 5HOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1 995 




COMMODORE FEATURE 1 3 



The AAA chipset (right - a 
stifl from Dave Haynle's 
"Deathbed Vigil" video) 
was planned as the core 
of the next generation of 
Amlgas, With a pretty 
awesome specification 
(Including eight channels 
of CD-quality sound), this 
new chipset held out 
great promise. However, 
the liquidation of 
Commodore left It Itmhn 





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WHERE ARE 


THEY NOW? - AAA CHIPSET \ 


U|f nether the AM 
W chipset ever sees 


However, no 


and Mac operating systems is 1 


operating software had been 


just 18 months away. 


the light of day depends on 


designed for it and now, 


So if a AAA chipset 


the speed with which it can 


of course, there are no 


machine could be brought to 


be developed. 


software specialists working 


market in, say, six months it 


David Pleasance says 


for the company. 


would be a viable proposition. 


it was 98 per cent complet 


e RISC technology, which 


If not (as seems likely) 


when liquidation was 


could produce a machine 


the RISC machine will take 


announced. 


which combines Amiga, PC 


priority. 



relatively meagre advertising budget and a TV ad 
which was panned by the trade as dreary and old- 
fashioned next to Pirate TV and Rik Mayall walking 
into a pane of glass. 

In the circumstances actual sales of around 
50,000 in the UK by Christmas 1993 [Commodore 
has never given a precise sales figure) were very 
good. Excellent even. And 

software sales began to ^^^^^mum^^^^m 
climb too. By easter 
1994 CD32 games were 
easily outselling PC CD- 
ROM and Mega CD titles. 
In general it was a good 
performance. Just not 
good enough to bail out a 
company that had posted 
a series of staggering 
quarterly losses. 

These numbers make ^ . 
pretty frightening reading 
so those of you of a nervous disposition be 
warned. For the three months to March 1993 the 
loss was $177.6 million - that's roughly six times 
the profits for the previous fiscal year. This huge 
total was the third instalment of a year in which 
Commodore made a total toss of $356.5 million. 
The mistakes of the previous four years had been 
swallowed and kept down for as long as possible. 
Now they were being vomited up at the same time. 

So you get a feel for the scale of the job 
facing the company. Pleasance and Proudfoot put 
a pair of brave faces on the task and said that, 
yes, the loss was fearsome but it was because all 
the expensive mistakes had been written off in 
one go. "Some things have to get worse before 
they get better" was how Pleasance put it. They 
were confident that the new streamlined 
Commodore with a manageable core range 
comprising the A1200, CD32 and A4000 could 
muscle it through. And this was the case that 
Commodore presented to impatient creditors like 
the Prudential with mounting debts. It worked. The 
company was given a stay of execution and some 



"There were occasions 
when Commodore was not 

in a position to take 
advantage of its fantastic 
technological headstart." 



breathing space to put things right. 

In the three months to December 31 1993, 
when the CD32 factor was supposed to be taking 
effect, a loss of $8.2 million was posted. 
Chairman Irving Gould had injected $17.4 million 
info Commodore as a loan from another of his 
companies. Clearly the rescue plan was too little 

too late. Liquidation 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ became inevitable. 

When it came, It was 
like a bolt out of the 
blue to all but senior 
management. In the UK 
staff at Maidenhead 
were shocked. But the 
company continued to 
trade as normal as did 
subsidiaries in Canada, 
Germany, Scandinavia 
and Italy, sheltered by 
the court protection of 
their parent in the Bahamas. 

As potential backers jostled for control it 
seemed the future would be sorted out quickly. 
But the lawyers tasked with finding a solution had 
underestimated the complexity of the job. The 
Commodore organisation was a tangled web - it 
has even been likened to the Maxwell corporation, 
A buyer was not going to be appointed quickly. 

This gave Commodore UK time to put together 
its own bid. On July 7 1994 it was announced to 
the trade. At this point Pleasance talked about the 
possible replenishment of Amiga stocks by 
October/November. Of course, we now know that 
has not happened. The Commodore UK boss is 
still confident his bid will be accepted. He says 
there is no substance in the CEI offer whatsoever 
and that it wouldn't make sense for the liquidators 
to simply dismantle Commodore. Why? Because 
Amigas are no good to anybody unless somebody 
controls and regenerates the technology. 

Which brings us back to the beginning. Of the 
feature, that is. Is this the beginning of the end or 
the end of the beginning? QJ 



In my opinion,.* 

I rrol Madoo works for E M 
, Computer graphic, one of the 
formost purveyors of PD and 
Compugraphic fonts in the Amiga 
world. As with all the others in 
this piece, he has his own opinions 
as to why Commodore went into 
liquidation... 

1. In my opinion the Commodore of old 
spent far too much time and effort 
trying to be all things to all people. 
They really should have ploughed more 
money and development time into 
concentration on the Amiga (subsidised 
by their sales of the games Amigas). 

Their PC clones were a joke, 
doomed from the start, and aimed at 
an extremely competitive, and low profit, 
market. Commodore were the only 
company that could make and develop 
Amigas. This, coupled with a more 
positive form of Amiga promotion could 
have guaranteed them a solid future. 

2. The new owners, whoever they will 
be, should really concentrate on 
publishing the Amiga as a professional, 
very competitive DTV machine. The Amiga, 
as we all know, is a great multimedia 
machine, capable of matching the 
capabilities of the best contenders in 
this field at a much lower price. 

3. I've got no favourites here, as long 
as the new owners see the Amiga for 
what it is. for what is can do and. 
maybe more importantly,, are prepared 
to market the machine to a 
professional market. 

4. Support at this stage isn't really the 

problem for the new owners. I feel that 
they should talk to high end users and 
organisations, the people that use 
Amigas and find out what these users 
want from the Amiga. 

The new owners should then 
develop Amigas around the people that 
know what the hell they want from the 
machine. Maybe consulting with third 
party developers would also give them 



future developments 



5. At present 1 see a very grim future 
In the space of a few short months I 
have personally seen the Amiga loose < 
staggering amount of ground with 
professional users. Even if the Amiga 
saga was resolved today, the new 
owners would be facing a long struggle 
to make up the lost ground with the 
professional users that are transferring 
to alternative (and very expensive) 
computer platforms at an alarming 
rate. Their first priorities should be to 
get machines to the end user, get the 
Amiga as much exposure as possible 
and, more importantly, get feedback 
from the (remaining) high end users. 



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1 6 REVIEW 



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ou have to be either very confident or 
very stupid to claim that your program Is 
"The Ultimate Video Titling System'', but 
as this is what Video FX claim for their new 
program I was Keen to put It to the test and see 
Just what It was they had to trumpet about. 

I have used a good few titling packages over 
the years, including all the commercial offerings 
and several PD efforts and was curious to know 
how Pizaz would measure up to such competition. 
Supplied on 11 disks, Pizaz claims' to work on 
any Amiga fitted with at least 3Mb RAM (including 
1Mb Chip RAM). A hard drive isn't essential as 
Pizaz works directly from floppies, but it is 
recommended, as is 5-8Mb RAM. Incidentally, a 
full HD installation of Pizaz requires just over 4Mb 
of free disk space! So, anticipating the good things 
to come I started the HD installation (which uses 
the standard Installer system) and, ten minutes 
later, all the software was installed. 

Once Pizaz was running I began to do my usual 
investigations trying to freeze it, trying to push it 
to its limits... Often I'm amazed by what a really 
smart program can do and I write all the good 
things down first but with Pizaz it took under an 
hour of use to produce a list of shortcomings 
which filled most of an A4 page! 

NOT ENOUGH MEAT? 

1 Pizaz only works in lo-res overscan (368 x 285 x 
32 colours); 

2 Pizaz only has three fonts (and no 
choice of point sizes or lower-case 
letters); 

3 Pizaz cannot use standard Amiga 
fonts (a separate program, costing 
£39.99, to do this is due out in 
January 1995); 

4 Pizaz doesn't centre text properly 
(see screenshot top right); 

5 Text kerning is poor; 

6 You can't mix fonts on a page; 

7 Change the fonts and you lose all 
the text on a page; 

8 Pizaz cannot import text files; 

9 Pizaz doesn't do scrolls or crawls in the 
accepted sense of the word (such rolling a credit 
list up the screen); 

10 No wipe effects are available; 

11 Pizaz cannot load an IFF file as background, nor 
can it use brushes; 

12 Pizaz has no real palette control; 

13 Horizontal "scrolling" is often jerky; 
True, most of the above problems can also be 

individually applied to some (if not all) of the video 
titling programs which are (or have been) available 
for the Amiga, but not in such concentration as 



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contender to be a plain affair, rather than the 
Quattro Stagioni it would like to pretend it is. 



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No, neither would I, even If Pizaz did provide 
lower-case letters - which It doesn't. 



seen here. I question whether Video FX stopped to 
consider the market they were moving into, if they 
took a close look at the competition, or if they 
even know what a video titler is supposed to do? 

NO NEED TO WELSH 
ON BASICS 

There's more: Video FX have not only added 
personalised security coding to each issued 
program (not that I think that's a bad thing) but 
they have also included that: enter word two from 
line two of paragraph four on page 42-type of 
annoying requester that sometimes pops up. I 
know Mid-Glamorgan is a bit off the beaten track, 
but surely there's no time warp there? 

If you're reading, Video FX, I hate to have to 
say this, especially since you undoubtedly have a 
lot at stake here, and you have put more than 
20,000 lines of code into making 
Pizaz what it is, but this program 
just doesn't cut ffl 

Whatever inspired you to 
include only three fonts (OK, they 
can do some fancy rotating things) 
that look like escapees from an old 
Euro-Demo? Why no plain fonts, and 
why no choice of point sizes or 
lower- and upper-case letters. 

Must we always spell words in 
multi-coloured, chrome-effect text? 
Pizaz's menus, such aa this Do the TV companies want this? Do 
for "scrolling' are simple. wedding producers want this? Does 
your average DTV enthusiast want this? I think not! 

So I suggest that you include some more 
usable and realistic fonts immediately. Perhaps 
you could start with some serif and non-serif fonts, 
each in three point sizes (perhaps 16, 24 and 32 
pixels high, for instance). And then add the ability 
to mix them on a page and adjust the colours of 
each at will. If you don't know what I'm talking 
about check out some other video titters. 



NOTHING IN ITS F(L)AVOUR? 

OK, Pizaz has a few redeeming points, though 
these are obviously heavily outweighed by the 
above criticisms. The rotating text idea is nice 
(where text grows while spinning into place, either 
by the letter, line or word), and the so-called 
scrolling routines look good where text rolls either 
above or below its preceding line. I also liked the 
fact that there are several ways of adding spice to 
the text by being able to adjust (or add) things like 
outlines, borders and so on, as well as make 
limited adjustments to the colour palette (by 
loading one of several preset palettes). 

Beyond this, though, there's not much left to 
say. An exclusively lo-res interface and lo-res 
operation isn't up to scratch nowadays. It is no 
excuse saying that lo-res was used to save 
memory and enable Pizaz to be as compatible with 
as many Amigas as possible because, to come up 
to Pizaz's stated minimum RAM requirements, any 



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Surely a visit to the optician Is required here If 
you think that the 'ON' Is realty centred? 

standard Amiga (except the 4000) would have to 
be expanded anyway. Heck, if BAS 2 can scroll and 
crawl in Hi-Res in just a Mb and provide more than 
twice the fonts and most of the features of Pizaz 
then surely Pizaz could get it's act together in 
20,000 lines of code? Get real, Video FX! © 
Gary Whiteley can be e-mailed as 
drgaz@cix.compulink.co.uk 







WHAT 

Pizaz vl.l - £59.99 

WHO 

Video FX 
WHERE 

Video FX, 291 High Street, 
Gilfach Goch, Mid-Glamorgan, 
CF39 SSH ir 0443 6743S5. 





CHECKOUT 

Pizaz 



Documentation: 

Adequate - but boring. 



75% 



Features: 40% 

Naff. Not enough fonts, not enough features. 

Ease Of Use: 50% 

Simple enough to use, just that there are things that 
ought to work better - like font swapping. 

Value For Money: 30% 

If this was £10 shareware then I might be happy. OK, 

it isn't Scala, but even so... 

Overall rating: 50% 

Despite Its grandiose claims, Pizaz 
really Isn't worth spending your 
money on. Buy BAS 2 instead and 
some real pizza with the £30 you'll 
save - you'll certainly enjoy It more. 



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1 8 REVIEW 



VLAB MOTION 

Gary Whiteley reviews a new motion JPEG 
card and wonders whether it might provide 
some serious competition for DPS's PAR card. 



Like its rivals, the DPS Personal Animation 
Recorder and the Digital Broadcaster 32, 
Mac roSys tern's VLab Motion has taken 
rather longer than expected to get out of the labs 
and into the shops. But it's here now and, 
bearing the competition in mind, I set about 
giving it a thorough testing. 

The most obvious difference between the 
three systems is price. A full PAR, with grab 
module and an adequate hard drive costs around 
£3500, whilst a fully-specced DBC 32 setup costs 
even more. The VLab Motion, together with a 



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necessity unless you have a 1280 x 1084 display. 




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large, fast, dedicated hard drive and SCSI card 
should cost well under £2500. I know there is 
more to comparisons than price, but over £1000 
difference between apparently equivalent PAR and 
VLab Motion setups is a pretty big chunk of cash 
and this alone will be an obvious attractor to 
potential punters. If space allows we'll come back 
to this point later. First let's find out just what the 
VLab Motion is. 

VLab Motion is a motion JPEG (not to be 
confused with MPEG) card for any Zorro slot 
equipped Amiga. It can accept composite or YC 
video and convert it on the fly at 50 fields per 
second into digital video stored on a hard drive for 
further manipulation or for output as sequences of 
single images or as animation to tape. VLab 
Motion comes supplied with MacroSystem's 
MovieShop software, which controls all the various 
aspects of the digitising and manipulation 
processes. Used in conjunction with 
MacroSystem's Toccata sound card MovieShop 
can also control simultaneous audio digitising 
and synchronous sound and picture editing. 
However, this review is based solely on the VLab 
Motion, as I wasn't supplied with a Toccata card to 
play with as well. 

Fitting the VLab Motion card is straightforward 
(but see the sidebar for hints on what could go 
wrong if your system doesn't measure up to VLab 
Motion's non-specifc requirements) and installing 
the software is no problem. One important point is 
that any hard drive {or indeed drive partition) which 
you designate for saving VLab Motion JPEG files 
will no longer be accessible to normal Amiga DOS 
functions, as it will be taken over by MovieShop for 
its own purposes, therefore becoming useful only 
for VLab Motion work. 

You should also note that grabbing big chunks 
of high-quality video data requires huge amounts 
of disk space, so if you're seriously considering 
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Rock'n'Roll rebel? Or Just a pale Imlttatlon? 

as possible and SCSI-2 might be preferable to 
provide a data transfer rate high enough for true 
broadcast-quality storage and playback. Unlike the 
PAR, which requires a dedicated IDE drive 
connected directly to its own interface, the VLab 
Motion will work with any SCSI drive (and probably 
even with a suitably fast IDE drive). 

In addition to its grabbing, editing and image 
and scene manipulation functions the Movieshop 
software provides for extensive control over the 
incoming video signal, particularly colour, contrast 
and brightness, as well as a range of filtering 
options, in case the picture quality isn't quite up 
to scratch. There are also controls for colour- 
keying a live video image over a previously 
digitised one, though keying quality is dependent 
upon the quality of both the digitised and incoming 
signals. It works, but it could be better. 

Once digitised, the video clips ('Scenes') can 
be hacked around in various ways, including being 
built into longer sequences with optional transition 



REVIEWER'S LIFE IS NOT A HAPPY ONE! 



In my three years with Amiga 
Shopper I don't remember having 
had so much trouble with a product 
as I had with VLab Motion. 

Having read MacroSystem's 
minimum hardware requirements it 
looked like my 40MHz '030- 
equipped, 12Mb, three 120Mb SCSI 
hard drives A2000 would easily 
make the grade. Alas no, because 
once I'd got the VLab Motion 
installed, the only consistent 
features were the problems I had 
getting it to work. 

Thinking it might be a memory 
problem or hardware conflict, I 



started removing cards to test this 
theory. The problem persisted. To 
eliminate the possibility that it was 
a problem with my GVP 
accelerator/SCSf card, I tried the 
VLab Motion in a friend's A2000 
with an 040 card. Still no dice. The 
best JPEG quality I could use with 
confidence was just 30% - not even 
VHS quality! 

By now I'd called ACS several 
times. Meanwhile, I became 
increasingly frustrated with the VLab 
Motion. Now I suspected the hard 
drive I was using, but was assured 
that it was fast enough. 



ACS told me that MacroSystem 
in Germany had found no 
incompatibility with GVP cards, 
though Noahji's (MacroSystem's US 
distributors) had apparently 
circulated a note saying that there 
were compatibility problems with 
the VLab and GVP Series II SCSI 
controllers. I fitted an Oktagon SCSI 
controller to substitute for the GVP, 
which meant having to disassemble 
my Amiga to shift the hard drives 
around. But having rebuilt my 
Amiga, guess what? Yep, still no 
improvement! I began to wonder if 
the VLab Motion card was faulty. 



Another call to ACS informed 
me that of a batch of twelve cards, 
six had already been returned as 
faulty. A new VLab Motion card from 
a new batch was duly dispatched to 
me, the third in as many weeks. 

After swapping my hard drives 
around, guess what? it worked! So 
the drive distributors had been 
telling porkies and my Conner drive 
wasn't as fast as they said it was, 
which is why the swapped-out 
Quantum was now letting the VLab 
Motion work with some semblance 
of realism, and, additionally, my 
GVP SCSI /accelerator worked fine. 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



REVIEW 19 




The image quality of the V-Lab Motion depends 
upon what compression you use. 

effects between them. The heart of the editing 
process is a rJ rag- 'n '-drop time line window which 
is reasonably easy (though not particularly 
intuitive) to use but the calculation of the effects 
can take a very long time. The effects are not real 
time and must be calculated and stored frame by 
frame before the new sequence can be replayed. 

A range of effects is provided, including basic 
wipes and fades, several image processing 
functions, picture-in-picture processing (with 
borders) and simple titling. Scenes can easily be 
joined together by grouping them in the clipboard 
window but trimming them to precise lengths isn't 
as easy as it should be. Grabbed scenes and 
edited sequences ('Movies') can be saved to other 
hard drives, but unless you note the JPEG ratio 
they were made at you won't be able to 
reload them! 

MovieShop has plenty of potentially excellent 
features, not least its ability to import both JPEG 
and standard IFF files, and to export frames of 
video data to disk in a variety of formats. This 
means that animations can be built to the hard 
drive from sets of IF or JPEG images, or 
sequences of video can be split into single frames 
for rotoscoping or other processing. 

BUGS AND TROUBLES 

Throughout my evaluation I came across software 
bugs and other problems. Here are some of the 
most prevalent or niggling: 

• Scenes can be saved as data to other 
devices than the MovieShop partition/drive but 
unless you know their JPEG ratio they can't be 
reloaded into MovieShop! So, make notes or 
effectively lose your data! 

• Any changes to the digitising settings will 





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sending In the wittiest caption to this picture- 



Will you want to kiss the V-Lab motion? Not 
unless you have a fast machine and hard disk... 

result in the total loss of all the data saved on the 
MovieShop drive. So, back it up first (taking into 
account the above paragraph). 

• Top quality grabbing at full PAL overscan 
requires a very powerful Amiga system - more 
powerful than mine, certainly. I wasn't able to 
get better than 75% JPEG at 640 x 512 pixels, 
though I would have liked to grab at 752 x 576 
at 90% or more... 

• Effects transitions can take ages to 
calculate (as can loading or saving out frames 
from a sequence) though the effects are built-in 
and so don't require the use of an external 
processor such as ADPro or ImageFX. 

• The software seemed quite buggy at times 
and would hang unaccountably or refuse to 
function as expected, even though it had worked 
'perfectly* just moments before. Functions often 
seemed inconsistent for no apparent reason. 

• Setting up the necessary buffer values for 
disk load and save can be a real pain and requires 
a lot of experimentation to achieve optimum 
performance for each VLab Motion system. 

• Constructing a VLab Motion animation from 
external image sequences (for example rendered 
images from a 3D program) is another hit-and-miss 
affair where it seems easier to get error messages 
than to actually build the animation. 

• There are too many different control 
windows, making for a cluttered user interface 
unless different settings are used or the user has 
access to extremely hi-res screen modes. 

WHAT'S MISSING? 

I was surprised that VLab Motion has no playback 
speed control or time-lapse grab facility (although 
it can grab either single frames or specified 
numbers of frames in one pass), and I'd like to 
see several of the windows combined for simplicity 
- such as the Time Line and Time Line Control 
windows. Another bug sweep is essential and the 
manual needs significant improvement, 

Gary Whiteley can be e-mailed as 
drgaz@cix.compulink.co.uk. ^9 



REQUIREMENTS 

Although the manual says any Amiga 2000, 
3000 or 4000 with at least 2Mb of Fast RAM 
and a free hard disk partition or entire drive are 
the minimum requirements for successful VLab 
Motion use I have to say that most users will 
probably be very disappointed at this level. 

For realistic results an '030 (or preferably 
'040) accelerator, plus large, fast SCSI 
Hard Drive (12 msecs or better) and 8Mb or 
more RAM are essential. Also required - 
composite or YC video source, external video 
monitor and a second VTR for recording the 
VLab Motion's output. 




WHAT 

VLab Motion - £1040 

WHO 

MacroSystem 

WHERE 

Amiga Centre Scotland, 
Harlequin House, Walkerbum, 
Peeblesshire, Scotland. 
it 0896 870583, 



CHECKOUT 

Vlab Motion 

Documentation: 70% 

Looks convincingly authoritative hut is very frustrating 
to read (no index) and rather un informative to boot. 
Lack of tutorials, poor explanations of crucial software 
settings and hardware requirements and dodgy English 
don't help. By the way, 41 pages of the manual's 100 
are devoted exclusively to ARexx commands! 

Ease Of Use: 50% 

Thanks to the indifferent manual and cluttered, 
schizophrenic, multi-window user interface VLab Motion 
verges on being a pain to use at times - unless you 
have a 1280 x 1024 hi-res screen, that is. 

Features: 85% 

There's no doubting that MacroSystem have tried to 
cram as many features as possible into their package, 
though they aren't all quite up to scratch yet. 

Quality: 70% 

From my [limited) tests I don't think the VLab Motion 
has yet reached true broadcast quality, though this 
obviously depends very much on the specification of 
the host Amiga and its hard drives. 

Price: 80% 

Well priced and featured against the competition, but still 
early days as far as quality and software stability goes. 

Overall rating: 71% 

Cheaper titan the DPS PAR by a good 
stretch, but nowhere near as friendly 
or efficient to use. Quality isn't as 
good, though the added editing and 
effects, coupled with audio 
compatibility, are points in its favour. 
I'd wait a while lor VLab Motion (and 
Its technical support) to Improve 
before splashing out. I'm afraid VLab 
Motion didn't knock my socks off, but 
I'll watch Its progress with Interest. 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



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REVIEW 21 



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Wordworth 3.1 offers 10 preset levels of 
magnification together with the facility to 
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Wordworth 3.1 also contains several Internal 
drawing tools. You can choose from several 
shapes Including rectangles and ellipses, and 
define the colour, weight and style. You can also 
draw lines In a number of styles and give them a 
variety of different start and end designs, for 
example, dimensions - arrows pointing at a 
vertical Una - and, as above, splats! 




Jeff Walker is a veteran! He has braved every 
version of Wordworth. Now he's back for more. 



egular readers will know that I laid Into 
the first release of Wordworth 3 rather 
. heavily (issues 37 and 39). It was a tad 
buggy to say the least. It was also slow, and 
lacking in the kind of features Amiga owners are 
coming to expect of top-priced software. Release 
3.1, says Diglta, Is faster, friendlier, and even 
more powerful. So let's see exactly how much 
faster, friendlier and more powerful It Is. 

We'll deal with "even more powerful" first 
because that implies that there are new features, 
as indeed there are. And top of the list is 
landscape printing, which was a feature of version 
2 but was removed for the 3.0 release because it 
didn't actually work. Landscape printing is one of 
those basic functions you expect from a word 
processor these days, so it hardly counts as a 
powerful new feature in my book. However, the 
good news is that landscape printing does now 
work, so you can produce, among other things, 
side-by-side A5 pages on A4 sheets of paper. 

EPS-PECIALLY FOR 3.1 

One of the biggest complaints I had of version 3. Ox 
was that it wasn't able to import any sensible 
vector drawing format, only a couple of obscure 
Atari ST and PC formats. New to 3.1 is support for 
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) drawings. Digita has 
copied its greatest rival, Softwood's Final Writer, by 
utilising a version of Adrian Aylward's freely 
distributable post.library to import and interpret 
PostScript code. Imported EPS drawings can be 
printed to any type of printer, although you require 
a deal of RAM for this (at least 3Mb), and 
interpreting PostScript is a big job so don't expect 
it to happen anywhere near quickly. 

Once imported and interpreted, EPS drawings 
are displayed on screen quite quickly because you 
don't see the real thing, just a rough bitmap 
version. When you scale an EPS drawing it may 
appear quite jaggy on screen. To draw it properly 
would take an age. But the on-screen rough is good 
enough to work with and the printout perfect - just 
as you would expect any vector drawing to be. 

One other important point here. As Adrian's 
post.library is quite a big file and it must reside in 



the Libs drawer on the disk you boot from, Digita 
has limited EPS import for use with hard disks 
only; a sensible decision. Indeed, I think the entire 
package should be marked "hard disk only" as it is 
murder to install on to floppy and frustration 
personified to run from its seven "system" disks, 
plus however many fonts disks you create. 

A SLOW SCROLLING 

Drag-and-drop text selection came in with version 
3.0a. This enables you to highlight a block of text 
and then drag it to a new position in the document. 
If it is a long document and the block you want to 
mark is more than a screenful long, you need to 
scroll the document while keeping the left button 
depressed. This kind of scrolling is very slow in 
almost every word processor, so there needs to be 
a faster way to mark blocks. The standard 
technique is shift-clicking. You position the cursor 
at the start of the block, move the view to the end 
of the block and then click the left button while 
holding the Shift key down to highlight all the text 
from the start position to where you shift-clicked. 
This technique is supported by Wordworth 3,1, 
another of its new features. 

Text formatting has been improved so that 
typeface and size are independent. This means 
that you can have multiple typefaces in a selection 
and change just their size. Digita says that the 




Oh dear: I specify contour left and get contour 
right and a column of characters (top right In the 
example) pushed Into the non-printable margin. 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



22 REVIEW 




Wordworth's Four 
Across mode is dead 
handy for checking the 
general layout of your 
document. 



Just about every 
technical question you 
could think of asking Is 
dealt with In 
Wordworth's 
voluminous on-line 
help. However, you may 
not like some of the 
suggestions for 
troubleshooting. For 
example: buy more 
memory, 
buy a hard drive... 




For those times when you need that funny little symbol In a font, Wordworth 
reads the entire typeface and displays every symbol. For PostScript Type 1 
fonts this assumes Adobe Standard Encoding, so if the font uses another 
encoding scheme not all the characters are available. This, together with 
the ability to flow text left and right around the rectangle or contours of a 
bitmap is on Digit a's "list of things to be done" for the next revision. 



open/save text filters have also been improved, 
although my ASCII text import test took just as 
long with Wordworth 3.1 as it did with 3. Ox. The 
reading and writing of the Wordworth file format 
itself has been improved, so much so that it is no 
longer compatible with previous revisions of 
Wordworth 3. Yup, Wordworth 3. Ox cannot load 
Wordworth 3.1 documents, although the new 
version can export in Wordworth 3.0x format. 
PostScript printing support came in with 
version 3.0b, but I'll mention it because it was 
missing when I reviewed 3.0. It is pretty basic: 

• colour and Grayscale output are supported, and 
you can output to printer or a named file (but not a 
named device); 

• you can set horizontal and vertical offsets and 
scale and rotate the output; 

• there are no crop marks, 

• there are no colour separations; 

• you have no control over the size of halftone 
screen unless you edit the PostScript prologue file; 

• you have no control over the output page size. 

• it does download PostScript fonts and you have 
the choice of Every Time, Once Only, or Never 
(because the fonts are resident in the printer). 

IN IT'S FONT OF WISDOM... 

But, and yes, it is a big but, there is a problem. 
Imagine this scenario. You have laid out your 
document using several PostScript Type 1 scalable 
fonts, but you don't have a PostScript printer so 
you (quite naturally) have the Normal print method 
selected. Fine, it prints nicely on your preferences 
printer, but then it turns out that you need to print 
it on a PostScript printer. So you decide to output 
the document to a PostScript file, which you can 
then transport to a new site and dump to the 
PostScript printer - the correct and sensible thing 
to do. But when you select the PostScript printing 
method in Wordworth 3.1 it changes every font in 
your document to a default internal PostScript 
font. Yes, every font and to the same point size, 
thereby ruining the layout of the document. 

To get Wordworth 3 to use and/or download 
PostScript fonts you must have the PostScript print 
method selected, before you start selecting fonts 
and formatting your pages, that is. But if you do 



that, when you want to print using the Normal 
(standard Amiga printer preferences) method, 
Wordworth 3.1 changes all the fonts to a default 
"normal" font. Yes, every font, and all to the same 
point size, so ruining the layout of the document. 

TWICE ISN'T TWICE AS NICE 

This is so crazy I can hardly believe it, but it is 
true. In Wordworth 3.1 (and 3.0b) you have to 
layout the document twice - once for Normal 
printer output, and again for PostScript output! 

As far as new features are concerned, that's 
all of them - hardly what you envisage when you 
read "even more powerful" as most of them are 
features that were missing from, or badly 
implemented in previous revisions of Wordworth 3. 

As for "friendlier", this refers to the on-line 
help files, which are indeed most welcome and 
include many tutorials. 
Although these are almost 
entirely of the "how do I do 
one single thing?" type, to 
which the answer is almost 
always "select this menu 
item, then that gadget", or 
something similar, it is this 
on-line help that makes 
learning to use Wordworth 
a pleasure because it is 
aimed at such a low level 
of expertise. 

Is it faster? Loading 
and saving are quicker in 
the Wordworth document 
format, and find/replace 
has been turbocharged 
beyond recognition. A test 
that took 290 seconds in 
Wordworth 3.0 took 11 
seconds in Wordworth 3.1, 
which is five times faster than Final Writer Release 
2 can manage the same thing, and an incredible 
achievement for a graphics-based word processor. 
Oh, that this enhanced performance had been 
reproduced for document formatting! 

Digita says it is faster, and the tests I 
performed showed that this is, in fact, no 




Scalable Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) 
graphics are now supported by Adrian 
Aylward's post.library. You need a hard disk 
and at least 3Mb of RAM to Import EPS 
graphics Into Wordworth. (Note that this 
graphic has left and right contour text How 
despite Wordworth allowing me to choose 
only between left or right text How.) 



fraudulent claim. But it is not fast, in fact, "slow" 
would be the word I would use. (Unless I was an 
advertising copywriter, that is.) Something that 
takes three or four seconds in Final Writer, for 
example, can take 30 or 40 seconds in Wordworth 
3.1. Or even longer. Even on an A4000/040 I 
often sat and stared at the stopwatch while 
Wordworth 3.1 had a good hard think about what I 
had asked it to do - change page si2es or 
margins, global change fonts, and so on. 

Sometimes, while working on something, 
Wordworth 3.1 suddenly wipes the on-screen page 
clean, leaving just the busy pointer to keep you 
company while you sweat blood and wonder if the 
program has crashed. Rest assured it hasn't, it's 
just working, you know, like builders work when 
you're not around to keep an eye on them, in fact, 
at one point I wasn't sure if the smoke coming out 
of my A4000 was the CPU 
chip overheating or 
Wordworth 3,1 having a cup 
of tea and a quick drag. 

Another big problem I 
had with Wordworth 3.0 was 
the number of bugs in it that 
caused it to crash. Digita 
would appear to have 
squashed almost all of them. 
The disastrous bug in 3.0 
which suddenly and without 
warning wrecks layouts has 
not yet reared its head for 
me in 3.1. My only crash was 
on quitting the program after 
attempting to import some 
incompatible graphics file 
formats. Silly me. 

The text flow system 
still has some bugs, however. 
The old bug that forces a 
column of single characters into the non-printable 
margin is still there, but this can be worked 
around once you know what not to do. And you still 
can't select an "exclude" text flow mode, left and 
right text flow, in other words, which would be 
especially useful in the double-page spread layout. 
Contour text flow is also erratic: sometimes 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



REVIEW 23 



when I chose contour left, I got contour right. On 
the whole, unless you really need text flow, try 
using extra carriage returns in the text to make 
spaces into which you can drop your pictures. 

TO BE TRUE TO TRUETYPE 

Font support hasn't changed from 3.0, but I must 
point out a fact I missed in my review of 3.0 - to 
use TrueType fonts you require a 68020 CPU or 
better. I imagine most of you use Compugraphic or 
PostScript Type 1 fonts anyway. 

All of the other problems I had with version 
3.0 are still problems with 3.1 because they are 
part and parcel of the program's design. For 
example, cut/copy/ paste doesn't use the 
standard Amiga clipboard, so data cannot be 
quickly moved from Wordworth to another 
application, or vice versa. This may sound trivial 
but l think that standard 
clipboard support is an 
important aid to productivity. 

The same goes for ARexx 
support (recordable macros, 
in other words), which 
Wordworth lacks, and proper 
master pages and style 
sheets. These are features 
that people who use a word 
processor every day have 
come to expect. 

There is, at least, the 
Librarian (which used to be 
called the Glossary) so that 
you can quickly insert 
frequently-typed words and 
phrases, and the Auto-Correct 




These pictures have different palettes but 
Wordworth chose acceptable colours for the 
right-hand picture from the left-hand shot's 
palette. No matter how they look on-screen 
- both use the original palettes to print. 



feature is godsend for clumsy typists loke mw. 

Wordworth's bitmapped graphics support is 
fairly comprehensive. It imports any palette-based 
(2-256 colour) IFF-ILBM, BMP, PCX, TIFF, IMG and 
GIF, plus HAM and HAM-8 pictures and can all be 
displayed on-screen in 2-256 colours. No matter 
how many colours your current screen mode 
supports, Wordworth prints pictures using their 
original palettes, so while a 256-colour picture 
looks odd on an eight-colour screen, it prints fine. 

In 256-colour mode Wordworth remaps its 
internal palette to the colours of the first bitmap 
you load; subsequent bitmaps get remapped for 
screen display to use the closest colours from this 
first palette, but again all bitmaps print using their 
original colours not those you see on the screen. 

By default Wordworth automatically preserves 
the aspect ratio of bitmaps when resizing them, 




you can save pictures as part of the document or 
leave them on disk with a link to them In the 
document. The hot-link Is there for mutti-taskers. 
This means that a graphic re-Imports Itself Into 
Wordworth, automatically, if you load It into a 
paint program, edit it and then re-save It. 



saving you the bother of having to hold down a 
qualifier key. Because in this mode the bitmap 
doesn't always fit inside its bounding box exactly, 
it can be awkward positioning a bitmap accurately 
because all you see when you resize or drag the 
box is the outline, which is often wider than the 
actual picture. An "adjust box to correct width for 
aspect" feature would be useful. If aspect ratio 
isn't important, or if you want to change the 
aspect, you can switch this feature off so that the 
bitmap always exactly fills its bounding box. 

GO WITH THE TEXT FLOW 

You can make colour of bitmaps transparent, 
and so you can get text to flow around the 
contours of a detail in a picture. This is simple for 
standard two-colour clip art (provided colour one is 
the actual detail). But for bitmaps that contain 
more colours you may 
need to first remap their 
palettes in a paint 
program so that colour 
is white and then "white 
out" the areas of the 
bitmap you want to be 
transparent in Wordworth. 
Naturally, Wordworth 
can flow text around the 
rectangle of a bitmap as 
well as the contours, but 
your choices are flow left 
or flow right - not both at 
the same time. Digita 
says this is on the wish 
list for the next revision. 
Wordworth contains a 
few internal drawing tools, including rectangles, 
ellipses and rounded boxes, filled or unfilled, and 
outlined in any weight and colour of line in 
different styles. You can draw straight lines in any 
colour, weight and style, and with different start 
and end designs such as arrowheads, squares, 
circles and the ever popular splat. 

Text Effects are also popular. You can type in 
text and then apply any number of effects that 
repeat that text, twisting it and spinning it and 
distorting it and changing its colour. The results 
are certainly eye-catching but are they much use? 

More useful is the tables feature. A table is 
like a mini spreadsheet. It is rectangular and it 
has "cells" into which you can type text or 
numbers. You can perform some simple 
calculations on the rows and columns of tables 
and the results are automatically inserted into the 
tables. You have control over the size of the grid 
and the size of the cells, and the colour, weight 
and style of the grid lines. Tables are independent 
objects, like pictures, so you can move them 
around without destroying the layout of the table. 

However, these tables would be more useful if 
there was an option to create charts from the data 
that has been entered, and if you could import 
data into them (from a spreadsheet, for example), 
and if you could export tables so they could be 
imported into other Wordworth documents. 

You may also have independent text objects, 
separate boxes of text which can be freely moved 
around a document, which is useful for captions 
and headings and all sorts. Again, you cannot 
import text into these boxes, but you can cut/copy 
text from a document into them. 

These "special" features are what sell the 
program, along with its greatest asset of all — its 
look. While I have been testing Wordworth 3.1 
several people have walked into my office and 




WHAT 

Wordworth 3.1 

SRP Is £149.99 but it's selling 

for much less. Upgrade from 

3.0x £14.99. Trade-in for any 

WP£59 

WHO 

Digita International Ltd 

WHERE 

Black Horse House, Exmouth 

EX8 UL. 

■ 01395 270273 



said; "Ooo, that's cute!" As soon as you see 
Wordworth you can't help wanting to use it. This 
"feature" is probably the main reason for 
Wordworth's success, which illustrates just how 
important appearances are. OK, your mother told 
you never to judge a book by its cover, but then 
she never had to stare at an ugly user interface all 
day long and Wordworth definitely has a very high, 
what I call, 'wow!* factor. 



However, whether a pleasant and friendly user 
interface can make up for a lack of speed and 
features or not is a moot point. However, if 
Digita's sales figures are to be believed, in the 
case of Wordworth, it would appear that it does, 
and who am I to argue with public opinion? CD 



CHECKOUT 

Wordworth 3.1 

Ease Of Use 88% 

Depends on how beefy your system is, but the on-line 
help sorts out many of the common problems, 
although you may discover that you can't do what you 
want to do because you haven't got enough RAM, or a 
fast enough CPU, or incompatible Type 1 fonts... 

Output 89% 

The addition of PostScript support rounds off 
Wordwortti's printing facilities (see the main text for 
problems). Don't expect fast preferences printouts of 
documents that contain vector fonts or graphics, 
although Digita Print Manager helps you to vastly 
enhance your output over what the standard Amiga 
printing preferences can manage. 

Performance 76% 

Find/Replace has been dramatically turbocharged, but 
in general use Wordworth is still very slow compared 
to the competition. 



Documentation 

Superb manual and the 3.1 additions are well 
documented in the, also superb, on-line help. 



94% 



Facilities 87% 

It does more than other Amiga word processors, but 

still lacks facilities found in top word processors on 
other platforms. SoHo is becoming big business and 

Amiga word processors are close to missing the boat. 

Value for Money 89% 

Terrific value at the £59 trade-in price, but rotten value 
at the £150 suggested retail price, and, considering 
the bugs in 3.0, 3,0a and 3.0b, a £15 upgrade fee is 
scandalous. 

Overall rating 84% 

Fine for genera!, everyday use, but 
not for a large project because of Its 
lack of formatting speed. 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



24 REVIEW 



Perfect 
Word 



Chris Bailes examines 
the special A 1200 
edition of Digita's 
acclaimed Wordworth 3. 



Word worth Is not everyone's idea of a 
budget word processor because It 
was aimed at the high-end market. In 
effect, this left a gaping hole filled only partially 
by the likes of Protext and Final Writer. Digita 
have produced a stripped-down version of 
Wordworth; specifically Intended for smaller 
machines fitted with Workbench 2 or better. 

Along with some of the nastier bugs the old 
version was infamous for, gone have features like 
the screen saver, footnotes, bookmarks, index, 
contents and Postscript support. What you're left 
with is a system that now runs almost comfortably 
in 2Mb of RAM and a single disk drive. Search & 
Replace is now running at a claimed 40 times the 
original 3.0 version. (Not that that was a great feat 
in itself, the original S&R algorithm was so slow, 
you could sit through the omnibus version of 
Coronation Street before the program had leisurely 
sifted its way through just a few pages.) 

With all those features gone, what use is 
Wordworth going to he now? Well, don't expect to 
be able to write and format a textbook on it, 
Wordworth 3.1SE is not about those esoteric 
uses, it's about writing letters and simple 
documents where you may still want (or need) to 
add that little bit of creative flare - posters for 
charity nights, school discos, or the wallpaper for 
your den. 






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coloured spiral. Note especially how the text 
remains clear without any ragged edges at the 
full screen resolution. 




Print Setup In Wordworth SE Is less cluttered 
(and less powerful) than Its bigger brother. 



Lazy typists will be glad to know that the auto- 
correction facility, DigiSense, has not been shown 
the door. A strange idea at best, Wordworth does 
make a reasonable stab at filling in where others 
left off. Essentially, you keep a library of common 
blobs and mis-types which Wordworth will correct 
as you type. "Dorter" for example, could be 
automatically replaced by "Daughter" without 
having to resort to the Collins spelling checker. 

WHAT ABOUT GRAPHICS? 

The first thing you'd have thought would have gone 
in a limited edition would be Text Effects. So, It 
comes as something of a surprise to find this 
module there along with other facilities to draw 
basic shapes such as lines, circles and boxes. All 
these facilities are object-oriented which means 
once and object is drawn, it can be modified, 
deleted or just moved around with just a flick of 
the mouse. Each has its own requester so they 
can be positioned accurately in the document too. 

Digita's team decided on a simpler system 
where the user enters a small string of text and 
programs the result: adding shadows, colour 
changes, rotations and so on. The program then 
applies these and you can view the result without 
even leaving the requester. Given the complexity of 
even this system, several pre-set designs have 
also been included to ease beginners in. 

Even Dfgita admit Text Effects are something 
of a gimmick, but with a little practice (and used 
very sparingly) they can be used to great effect. 

THE IMPORT-EXPORT TRADE 

Graphics and likewise text import facilities have 
been stripped down to the bare minimum for the 
SE version. Text can be loaded or save in either 
Wordworth format or plain ASCII; while graphics 
can be loaded in plain IFF (with full 256-colour AGA 
support). The retention of CGM is also important 
since it affords users access to a huge library of 
high-quality, fully re-sizeable outline graphics. Digits 
can supply nearly 600 images on six thematically 
organised disks from cartoons to dinosaurs - each 
temptingly priced at just under £15. Similarly, 
three disks of Agfa fonts are also offered priced 
between £30 and £70. 

Avid fan-club secretaries will be pleased to 
learn this version also retains the mail merge 
facility. This means you can create a simple 
mailing list and send everyone the same letter at 
the touch of a button. Interestingly, though the SE 
version supports both ASCII data files and data 
from Digita's latest database offering, Datastore 
(which should be available by the time you read 
this). Such files, usually difficult to manage, can 
be kept in some semblance of order thanks to the 
sort facility which can sort a set of paragraphs in 
ascending or descending date order. 

The burning question remains though - how 
well does it print? Wordworth SE does not support 
fancy things like Postscript or landscape printing. 
Those of us with little Epson or Citizen dot-matrix 
printers will be more than happy with the quality of 
output and ease of use. Digita even throw in a free 



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copy of their Print Manager. It will print colour, 
provided you have a colour printer. 

CONCLUSION 

There are two deeply divided sides in the word 
processor war. On one hand you have Wordworth, 
while the awesome Final Writer stands in the other 
corner. The sub-£50 market is less well served 
and Digita are set to make a real killing at this 
lower price point. Documentation is a too thin on 
the ground though - even at this price, 

Digita have been careful to retain the sort of 
things you actually need while giving the remainder 
the heave-ho. it works adequately, if not brilliantly 
on the A1200". Even so, although it does work on a 
single drive, that extra drive makes all the 
difference in the world. t;\l 




WHAT 

Wordworth 3.1SE - £49.95 
WHO 

Digita international Limited. 

WHERE 

Black Horse House, Exmouth, 

England, EX8 JUL 

« 01395 270 273 



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Features: 80% 

It's not the full version: but some of the more flashy 
and sought after facilities of the full program remain. 

Documentation: 30% 

Just 46 pages trimmed from over 330 arid you can't 
read AmigaGuide in bed! 

Performance: 75% 

Still nothing to write home about, especially on the 
A1200 for which this one is intended but acceptable. 

Ease of Use: 82% 

Better than Its big brother because the reduction In 
features make the available ones easier to find. 

Value: 87% 

Well worth the money so nip out and get one before 
the price goes up! 

Overall rating: 85% 

The best value word processor 
currently available on features 
and price. 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



MODEMS 

Top quality feature packed fax-modems at amazing prices! 
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Please telephone for a full specification sheet. 

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GP FAX software £39.99 




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We offer free fitting for personal callers 



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The most powerful disc back up system for the Amiga. 
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26 SUPERTEST 




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Brushes 
at Dawn 



There's a new breed of graphical 
software that combines image 
processing and painting tools. 
Graeme Sandiford puts two of 
them head-to-head. 



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uying graphics packages for the Amiga 
used to be easy. If you were looking for a 
paint package, you'd buy DPalnt; If you 
were after an Image processor, you would buy 
ADPro. Times have changed and with the arrival 
of packages like ImageFX and Personal Paint the 
distinction between these two types of software 
has become quite blurred. [Groan - Ed]. 

Yes I know it's a bit of a sad pun, but with the 
Arrival of Almathera's Photogenics and PPaint 6.1 
difference has become even less apparent. Mind 
you, this is not a bad thing. It means that Amiga 
pixel-pushers have the chance to have it all - paint 




Here's en example of Photogenlc's excellent 
rubthroiigh painting mode. 



ALPHA CHANNELS 



Yes I know they sound like some kind of ray 
from a 1950s sci-fi film, but alpha channels 
are an important feature. This image was created 
very easily and only took about 15 minutes to do 
in Photogenics. 

First I created the texture using the whitenoise 
loader, which was then blurred then sharpened 
repeatedly and had its colour adjusted using the 
balance paintmode. Next some text was loaded in. 
embossed, sharpened then blurred and moved to 
the alpha channel. Finally the huemap paintmode 
was used over the whole image. This sort of 
usage is one of the first things you are shown 
when learning about alpha channels. 



packages with enough power to handle image 
processing tasks. 

Even though the Amiga has outgunned most 
other platforms when it comes to graphical 
applications, Macintosh-users have always been 
able to fall-back on Photoshop. While neither of 
the two programs we will be reviewing can 
compete with PhotoShop in terms of sheer power, 
they offer similar features. More importantly they 
do not cost £600. That's why we've put Personal 
Paint and Photogenics head-to-head - they have 
similar abilities and fit into the same price range. 
They also make similar demands of your system - 
Personal Paint can run a 1Mb machine and 
Photogenics 2Mb. However, you'll need a 24-bit 
card or an AGA machine to run Photogenics. 

USING WHAT YOU'VE GOT 

One thing is true of most types of software - 
powerful features alone do not make a good 
program. A program should give the user access to 
its features in the easiest and most productive 
manner possible. This is doubly true of graphics 
programs, where the 'feel' of the package is 
especially important. 

While Personal Paint's and Photogenics' 
interfaces may be superficially similar, the 
ideas behind them and their working methods 
could hardly be more different. Personal Paint 
takes a fairly traditional paint package approach, 
while Photogenics has opted for a more 
avant-garde interface. 

Personal Paint's interface is more than a little 



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similar to DPaint's. If you have been using DPaint 
then you should encounter no difficulty in switching 
programs. Along the left of the screen you'll find 
the palette and a toolbar with icons for each tool. 
Clicking on an icon with your left button will select 
that tool, doing the same with the right button give 
you access to the tools options. 

Photogenics looks deceptively similar, but 



"Having realistic painting 

fools is great if you can 

draw f but they won't 

transform you into a great 

freehand artist overnight" 



works, quite frankly, in a most unusual manner. 
When you apply paint to an area of an image it is 
actually drawn into a separate paint layer. This 
layer is placed over the actual image information. 
In order to make a screen changes permanent you 
have 'fix' the paint layer. This may sound like an 
unnecessarily complicated process, but once you 
get used to it you'll find it's a powerful and flexible 
way of working. 

For example, if you make changes that you 
find you don't like you can undo areas by simply 
painting over them while holding the right mouse- 







If you look at tho picture In the right way you 
should see an Image of lady, or get e headache. 



AMIGA SHOPPER • I55UE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



SUPERTEST 27 




button. This will restore the areas you have 
covered to their fixed state. 

PAINT ALONG 
WITH NANCY 

Making the transition between painting with 
traditional and electronic media is not easy. Yet, 
as many Amiga-artists have proved, it can be 
done. Until recently, little has been done to 
make painting with the Amiga a more natural or 
realistic appearance. 

However this is an area in which Photogenics 
excels as it has a host of ground-breaking new 
features. Photogenics has a large number different 
brushes that emulate artists' tools, such as an 
airbrush, chalk, crayon, felt tip, neon, pencil, 
sponge, spraycan and watercolour. These tools are 
surprisingly true to their real-life counterparts. 

The way in which these work is both ingenious 
yet simple. It's a combination of IFFs brushes and 
size, pressure and transparency settings. The IFF 
brush determines the overall shape of the brush. 
The pressure setting alters the amount of paint 
that will be drawn on screen and the transparency 
setting will determine how much of the image 
underneath shows through. I know this all sounds 
pretty clinical, but when you're using the different 
brushes they really do 'feel' real, especially 
when you are using a background texture. When 
you combine the brushes with a graphics tablet, 
such as the Tabby, it produces an uncannily 
realistic emulation. 

All of this leaves PPaint with a tough act to 
follow. Indeed, PPaint's - and most other Amiga 
paint programs' - painting tools seem primitive in 
comparison. However PPaint does have a couple 
of tools that Photogenics lacks. It has a nice 
bezier curve tool, while Photogenics doesn't even 



have a basic arc tool - a real shame. Nor does 
Photogenics have PPaint's continuous line and 
filled polygon tools. 

All the same, PPaint is hopelessly out-classed 



"The level of naturalness 

achieved with Photogenic's 

painting options is unheard 

of at this price and is a joy 

to use/' 



in this department. It simply cannot easily produce 
convincing emulations of real-world media. The 
level of naturalness achieved with Photogenic's 
painting options is unheard of at this price and is 
a joy to use. 

PROCESS OF ELIMINATION 

Having realistic painting tools is great if you can 
draw, but they won't transform you into a great 
freehand artist overnight. If you can't draw 
yourself, you'll want to edit existing images to 
achieve the look you want. This is where image 
processing capabilities come in useful. They can 
also create visual effects that would be difficult or 
impossible to produce any other way. 

As well as producing effects, image 
processing can be used to improve and adjust 
scanned images and, particularly with the aid of 
alpha channels, create compositions for 
montages. The first version of PPaint caused quite 



a stir when it was first launched, as it was one 
of the first paint packages to sport any kind of 
Image processing abilities. Cloanto have built on 
this early success by adding more image 
processing functions. 

The most notable of these additions is the 
implementation of alpha channels. Alpha channels 
can be an immensely powerful feature. By way of 
a quick explanation, let's just say that they restrict 
your editing to a limited region of the screen. This 
area is stored as grayscale data in a screen called 
an alpha channel (to find out about the practical 
application of Alpha channels read the boxout on 
page 26). However Cloanfo have failed to fully 
utilise this important feature. 

Use of alpha channels is restricted to brush- 
based operations. This was a great 
disappointment as it severely limits its 
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28 SUPERTEST 




more fiddly. Don't get me wrong, you can achieve 
some reasonable results, but is not the ideal 
implementation of this tool. 

I guess you could say that Photogenics takes a 
more traditional approach to alpha channels. I 
must say 1 prefer it - although it is what I'm used 
to, it still seems to me to be the most logical 
and practical way of going about this. However you 
can use brushes as alpha channels when 
necessary or convenient. 

While alpha channels are extremely useful, 
they are not the be-all-and-end-all of image 
processing. A good set of image filters is always 
welcome. Most filters are matrix-based, put simply, 
it means that they produce visual effects by 
changing the colour values of pixels in relation to 
their neghbours. 

Not surprisingly, as filters can be designed 




I traced around this sprinter In paint mode and 
then changed to motion blur mode. 



quite easily, the programs share several basic 
filters, as well as a custom filter. This can be used 
to create your own filters by changing the values of 
the matrix. 

Some of the other filters they have in common 
include emboss, randomise, sharpen, texture, tint, 
negative, Gaussian blur, rub through and 
brightness. While applying a filter to an entire 
image can produce dramatic effects, sometimes a 
little subtlety is called for. This is where the ability 
to apply filters to limited areas of the screen 
comes in handy. Thankfully, both of these 
packages can do this, although in different ways. 
P Paint has a specific limited region processing 
tool, while Photogenics can use most of its filters 
as a paint mode. 

Of course, each of the packages have filters 
that are unique to it. But, in fact, there is not 
much to choose between the two - when one has 
a filter, the other tends to have a similar feature 
incorporated elsewhere. However, in balance, 
Photogenics' ability to use the filters as a 
painting mode coupled with its brushes provides 
that much more control. 

ANYTHING YOU CAN DO... 

Well that covers both the painting and image 
processing features. However there are features 
that don't fit neatly into either classification. Some 
of them are ground-breaking, while others might be 
considered as just plain weird. 

One tool that falls into the latter category is 
PPaint's SIRD-generator. You know - the pictures 
that look like random patterns of dots, but are 
actually 3D images if you look at them in the right 
way, or after a couple of pints. However I doubt 
very much that Cloanto will take any legal or 



medical responsibility if your hair falls out and 
your gums start bleeding, because your face 
has been pressed up against your monitor for the 
last two hours. 



"The first version of PPaint 

caused quite a stir when it 

was first launched as it was 

one of the first paint 
packages to sport any kind 

of image processing 



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One of the things that has endeared 
Photogenics to me is its clone tool. The clone tool 
can remove components of an image, such as a 
pillar in a hallway, so well that it appears as if they 
were never there. It does this by replacing areas of 
the image with other areas. To use it, you must 
first select it as a paint mode and then click or 
screen on screen while the mode setting button is 
selected. This will produce a line that can be 
dragged to determine the distance between the 
area to be cloned in relation to the brush's 
position. The closer these two are the more subtle 
the change will be. 

Another good feature that Photogenics has, is 
its large number of loaders and savers. Some of 
the loaders would appear to have been heavily 



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SUPERTEST 29 



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More Memory! 



If there is one thing you can never have too 
much of it's memory. Whether you are 
rayt racing or manipulating large images you 
are always going to benefit from more memory. 

Photogenics and Personal Paint are no 

exception especially if you have a 2Mb 
document open, a secondary image and an 
alpha channel. Fortunately, both of the 
programs developed have realised this and have 
made provision for this need. 

Personal Paint has its own virtual memory 
function built-in. It can be set to kick in when 
needed and a volume or directory can be 
selected to be used as memory. 

Almathera have not included virtual memory 
in Photogenics' system. Rather they have made 
sure it works with the excellent VMM PD 
program - shame they did not supply it! 



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One of Personal Paint's best features Is the one 
giving you control of the colour palette. 

influenced by ADPro. As with ADPro and ImageFX 
these can be added to by third parties. They 
include all the important ones such as JPEG, GIF, 
IFF and PhotoCD - but not PCX. As well as these 
image formats the program has several pattern 
generators. These are: plasma, backdrop, ripples, 
streaks, whitenoise and colournoise. 

This arsenal of supported file formats 
makes PPaint's file support seem positively puny. 
While PPaint can load ILBMs, GIFs, PCXs and 
JPEGs, it can't save JPEGs. This is a major 
disadvantage as JPEG is the most commonly used 
format. The program can save pictures as C 
source code and encrypt files, but this is not 
much of a consolation. 

One of PPaint's features that is certainly a 
welcome addition to this version is animation 
tools. There are some pretty nifty ones too, like 




WHAT 

Photogenics 

£60 

WHO 

Almathera 

WHERE 

Almathera » 0181 687 0040 
Southerton House 
Boundary Business Court 
92-94 Church Road 
Mitch am 
Surrey, CR4 3TD 



the new storyboard feature, This can display 
several frames of an animation in a single window. 
The window and the frames can be re-sized to 
allow you to show a lot of small frames or a 
couple of big ones. 

AND THE WINNER IS... 

Well, it has been a fiercely fought competition and 
both products have an impressive array of 
features. But in the end it's more than simply a 
matter of features. For my money I'd go with 
Photogenics. Not only does it have PPaint 
outgunned in the features and interface 
departments it simply has a better feel. It also 
has greater degree of flexibility and power. 

This is not to say the program is perfect, there 
are a few things that I would change. These are 
mainly in the drawing department. Although the 
way in which the drawing toois work is very 
natural, I do miss some of the more 'traditional' 
computer painting tools. It would be nice to see a 
curve drawing tool, an improvement of the gradient 
tool and some fine tuning of the brush and image 
scaling tools - oh an Arexx port would be nice too. 
I also had a spot of trouble getting the magnifying 
tool to work properly. 

While it has some way to go before it can 
cross swords successfully with Photoshop, it is 
still an impressive program that does share some 
of its features. All of this is even more impressive 
when you consider that the creator of this 
program, Paul Nolan, is only 17. Although I was 
sceptical at first, I have to admit this is truly a big 
step forward for Amiga graphics. I can't wait to 
see the pro version which should be out towards 
the end of 1995. With Photogenics you can really 
have it all - well almost! CB 




WHAT 

Personal Paint 6.1 

£49.99 

WHO 

Cloanto 

WHERE 

Ramlga International 

« 01690 770304 

Stablau 'Rin 

Pentrefoelas 

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CHECKOUT 

Personal Paint 6.1 

Interface 80% 

Cloanto have stuck to the tried and tested DPalnt-look 
- familiar, but nothing new. 

Features 87% 

Personal Paint certainly has more features than 
your average paint package. 

Speed 65% 

Applying large filters will give you ample time to 
raise a family and reap the rewards of any long-term 
financial investments you've made. 

Value 87% 

it's still quite affordable. 

Overall rating 87% 

This Is definitely an improved 
package. It's a shame for Cloanto 
that It was released at the same 
time as Photogenics. 



CHECKOUT 

Photogenics 

Interface 87% 

It's a little confusing to start off with, but it is certainly 

very powerful and flexible once you are used to it. 

Features 93% 

This program has more features than you can shake a 
very shakey stick at. 

Speed 87% 

While you will still have time to make a cuppa while 
waiting for a Gaussian blur, the program is no slouch. 

Value 96% 

What are you stupid or something (it's worth every 
penny) - buy it, right now! 



Overall rating 

This Is the graphics 
package that everyone 
will be using. 



92% 




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30 REVIEW 










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Strange effects are doable with ImageFX 2's 
Alpha compositing. 



A significant other 

R Shamms Mortier is impressed by a significantly different 
image manipulation package upgrade - ImageFX 2,0. 



When is a software upgrade really an 
upgrade? Answer - when it is 
significantly different from previous 
versions. ImageFX 2.0 Is an upgrade, a 
significant upgrade, over previous versions. For 
quite a while ImageFX has vied with the other 
two Amiga Image manipulation packages 
[Blackbelt's ImageMaster and Elastic Reality's 
ADPro) for dominance. 

For a number of reasons which I will touch 
upon, 1 think that the 2.0 edition of ImageFX can 
lay claim to being the king of the mountain, the 
very best of the lot. 

THE IFX INTERFACE 

While its competition offers the Amiga user a 
complex hierarchical interface on the one the one 
hand (ImageMaster) and a text interface on the 
other (ADPro), ImageFX keeps its design as close 
to what the Amiga is all about as possible. The 
interface design uses as few separate screens as 
possible (five in all: Scanner, Palette, Toolbox, 
Render, and Print) and as many graphic controls 
as any Amiga user could hope for. 

There is no need to search for hidden esoteric 
buttons, as all are clearly labelled as to what they 
do. There are little things in the interface that wind 
up being not inconsequential to steady users. One 
of these is the way that IFX addresses resizing of 
the graphics. Several options are included that are 
unique to this software, like the ability to change 
the targeted structure from pixels to "ruled" units, 
a mathematical comparison of height and width. 
There are also size presets and modes. What is 
important here is that at every level of the 
software, the same care is taken to give the user 
a wealth of deep options, which is exactly what 



image manipulation demands. 

IFX3 supports all of the Amiga 24b it 
environments and than some, including all of the 
Amiga AG A modes. It adds support for the Epson 
300/600/800 Scanners and also the VLAB-YC. I 
tested it on an Amiga 2000, 3000T, and a 4000 
with no crashes or problems. On a 2000, I used it 
in conjunction with an OpalVision board. Not only 
does it render like lightning to the hardware, but 
you can even choose to have IFX come up with the 
full Opal screen in preview mode as well. 

Every Opal owner is going to desire this 



"ImageFX 2.0 is the kind of 
software that keeps the 
Amiga alive and kicking, 

and I vote it the best Amiga 

image manipulation 
software on the market" 



software for at least this reason. As a owner of a 
Primera colour printer, I am also happy to see 
Primera support added to IFX. Owners of the DPS 
PAR boards will be ecstatic to learn that IFX can 
convert images to that format. A collection of new 
image conversion formats might also fall under the 
heading of "hardware support", because of their 
ability to address the output of non-Amiga 
platforms. Among these are support for PICT 



vector and JPEG (Macintosh); PIC in all resolutions 
and colour depths, GRASP/GL and DL animation 
frames (MS-DOS); SGI RGB, WaveFront, and 
Softimage (Silicon Graphics); MPEG, X-Windows, 
Abekas 960, Sun Raster, and even Commodore-64 
Koala pad output files. 

The only item missing from this reworked 
option is the inability to import fonts from other 
than the native font directory. Otherwise, there is 
more than the usual number of options here. One 
of my favourites is the ability to import and export 
large blocks of text that you may have saved out in 
ASCII from your word processor. As an aid in the 
production of quality graphics, IFX2 has a special 
toggle that allows you to anti-alias the imported 
fonts, necessary in the case of jaggy bitmaps. 

PREVIEWS AT LAST! 

Applying an effect to a graphic can take a 
comparatively long time, especially when the effect 
is a complicated one. IFX2's competition makes 
you wait until the effect is applied before you can 
view the results and then undo them if they aren't 
to your liking. Not so for IFX2. When an effect is 
about to be applied to either the whole image or a 
selected region, two representative postage stamp 
sized views pop up next to your choices. One 
represents the graphic selected before the effect, 
and the other a comparison after the effect. As 
you alter the parameters with sliders and choose 
"preview" again, the new choices made alter the 
view of what will become the final image. This 
option alone will save you a bundle of time and 
frustration in the manipulation of your images. 

"Preview" also has another meaning in IFX2. 
Images are manipulated on a separate screen 
from their final rendering. Final renders may be 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



REVIEW 31 



This is a PostScript pic of a tiger, Imported Into IFX2 with the new 
PostScript loader and then manipulated as a new tiger. "Cheetah spots 
background was added. 




This Is one piece from a gallery series of prints I am producing. It's called 
"Eve Emerging". The picture is taken from a video, and the lightning, ripples, 
flare, and snake skin on Eve two's head were all developed In IFX2. 



targeted to standard Amiga, Amiga 1.3, DCTV, 
OpalVision, EGS, and "Foreign" selections (the last 
represents other boards like the Retina). What's 
neat about this package is that even the preview 
screen can be set up as Amiga modes, AGA 
modes, DCTV, OpalVision, "SuperAmiga" modes, 
or an appearance on the resolution of the 
WorkBench screen. As an OpalVision owner, I was 
excited to be able to select the Opal option and 
see the IFX2 menu superimpose itself over the 
24bit OpalVision screen. As part of the process, 
selections for the preview mode can be addressed 
as grayscale, colour, dithered colour, and HAM 
(with a special "Lo-Res Only" option added). 
IFX2 allows you to truly tailor its use to your own 
unique specifications. 

THE PREFS AT THE HEART 

The IFX2's image manipulation engine is driven by 
the selections you choose in its special Prefs 
section. A simple mouse click gets you there at 
any time, so if your machine configuration 
changes, you can simply change and save the new 
preferences. The only selection that I miss having 
a go at is one that would allow more than a single 
printout at a time, but everything else is here, 
including all of the various preview options 
mentioned earlier. There's even a separate area 
where you can enable virtual memory, including 
whatever hard disk partition is to be used for it. 
Personally, I'm a bit squeamish about using 
virtual memory as i hate the idea of continuously 
writing to my hard drives, but that's just me. 
There's a whole list of miscellaneous options that 
can be checked off and saved, like creating icons 
(hooray!), saving thumbnails of the saved image 
files, and toggling coordinates on. Another 
important consideration is that as long as your 
RAM is heavy enough, you can increase the 
number of Undo levels you like to have available. 

AWESOME PAINTING AND 
FLARE EFFECTS! 

Before IEX2, I lauded ImageMaster as the hottest 
Image manipulator when it came to creating lens 
flares, but now I have to vote for IFX2. What 
pushes me in that direction is that IFX2 allows you 
to preview every effect before you apply it, 
including interactively moving the flare parameters 



in the preview stamps. The added options make 
flare creation limitless as far as variety goes. And 
now... lightning! Yes, IFX2 has a true lightning bolt 
generator with so many options you may stall out 
for weeks just playing with this attribute alone. 
And what about more options as far as the 
painting end goes? IFX2 is one of the most 
versatile painting tools that the Amiga can boast, 
and much of that is based upon its new "PaintFX", 
one of the choices in the Special Effects list. On 
bringing it up, you can select from a long list of 
options (like Biochain, Charcoal, Cheetah, Eye, 
JFK, Medical, Pencil, Rake, Smoke, and dozens 
more) and apply your choice to either the whole 
picture or to a selected region. Most of the 
painting effects are unique to IFX2, so don't 
expect to find them in other software. 

CONCLUSIONS 

Mot to forget that this software is many times 
more gentle to the use of your RAM and ROM than 
either of its competitors. As long as your system 
has enough RAM (or you add the virtual memory 
options), you should never face the frustrating 
problem of having the software refuse to load a 
graphic, A separate program called "IMP" (ImageFX 
Multi Processor) gives you the capacity to do on- 
board batch processing, and as opposed to using 
an esoteric and techie exclusive interface to do it, 
the whole thing is spelled out in plain language on 
an intuitive interface. 

The design is elegant, and it will automatically 
generate Animations (loop toggleable), single 
frames, or 24bit frames as a target. Added to this 
is the capacity of another module, AutoFX, that will 
apply all preset effects to any file you choose, and 
which also allows automatic batching. 

I want to both rave about this software and 
also thank Nova Design for sticking with the Amiga 
in their development instead of jumping ship as 
some others seem to have done early on. On the 
MAC, there is a program called PhotoShop that is 
widely acclaimed for its image enhancement and 
manipulation capabilities. There is also a high end 
painting program called "Fractal Design Painter". 
ImageFX 2.0 combines the best of both of these 
and targets the results to video art. 

ImageFX 2.0 is the PhotoShop/Fractal Painter 
for the Amiga video artist and animator. This is the 



kind of software that keeps the Amiga alive and 
kicking, and 1 vote it the best (that's right, the fiesf!) 
Amiga image manipulation software on the market 
If you are an Amiga artist or animator and you 
don't have IFX2 in your kit of tools, you're missing 
out big time. IFX2 is one of a small handful of the 
best Amiga products of 1994. C2D 




WHAT 

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WHO 

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interface: 91% 

Not as innovative as Photogenics, but it is very easy to 
use and get your brain around. 

Features: 95% 

Plenty of new and powerful features ensure that 
ImageFX can handle more or less anything. 

Speed: 85% 

Some of the effects can take a very long time, but the 
preview allows you to see what they are likely to be 
like before committing yourself. 

Value: 83% 

Programs like Photogenics and Personal Paint are 
cheaper, but nowhere near as powerful... 

Overall rating: 94% 

If you are an Amiga artist and don't 

have ImageFX 2.0 in 

your toolbag, you're 

missing out big time. 

ImageFX Is one of the 

best Amiga products of 

1994. Don't miss ftf 




AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



32 TUTORIAL 






The maps for the sides of the pod (as detailed this 
month) are the only custom Images created for this 
object. The rest of the ■painted' areas (like the 
arms) use only a square, generic map of panels 
(which Lightwave comes with) or a light fractal 
pattern to simulate a weatherheaten look. All in alt, 
not a tough object to make! 



The 3 Ds of 3D 



Animation Part 2 



Mojo, the man who works v/lth Ron 
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AMIGA SHOPPER • I5SUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1 995 



TUTORIAL 33 




FIGURE %i This Is what the Work Pod looks like after being modelled. A keen 
oye may be able to spot the difference between this model and those seen 
ueekly on Babylon S. Give up? Mapping! 



FIGURE 2: In Lightwave, polygons are selected by dragging the mouse over 
them (the yellow ones are selected). They can now be manipulated In any 
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"Pod X." The dotted yellow lines show what direction the polygons are facing 
- If the line points Inwards, they are flipped the wrong way and will appear as 
a hole In the object! 



FIGURE 4: Lightwave's modeler allows you to drag out any of the 4 views for 
more detailed work. In this ease, a screengrab of this enlarged wireframe will 
make for a perfect stencil to create an image map. 



e member those days of yesteryear (or, 
depending on your age, yesterday) when 
you were building model kits of the 
Stars hip Enterprise, or perhaps race cars? 
Remember how after the last drop of glue had 
dried and you compared your creation with the 
picture on the box you thought, "mine looks 
awful." The picture looked like a real spaceship, 
ready to tackle the galaxy, while yours simply 
resembled a heap of cheap, white plastic with 
lopsided engines. 

However, once you went through the trouble of 
breaking out those little bottles of paint, applying 
the dec a Is and maybe even airbrushing a few scuff 
marks, it began to look like something. If you were 
really ambitious, you'd add a lighting kit and even 
the hobby shop guy was impressed. 

By the same right, modeling is only the 
beginning of making a good 3D object. If you 
actually tried to make the Babylon 5 WorkPod 
described last month, you've probably discovered 
this fact. Upon first hitting that render button, you 
wind up with something hauntingly similar days 
past - a white hunk of plastic (see figure 1). This 
is because painting and adding decals (surfacing 



and texture mapping) to your 3D object can be just 
as important, if not more so, than building the 
model itself. Just like in the old days! 

This month, you're going to learn how to apply 
the proper techniques to transform that boring Pod 
into the exciting, butch one you see on TV. 

GETTING STARTED 

First off, you must give your object a few 
'surfaces'. This allows you to assign certain 
colours and images to specific areas of your 
model - a sort of high-tech way to prevent paint 
from spilling where you don't want it. Figure 2 
shows how simple this is -just select the 
appropriate polygons in modeler and type in a 
name for them. While this can be done to a 
finished model, it may be easier to name polygons 
as you create each section of the object. 

Remember trying to paint those hard-to-reach 
places in a plastic model that had already been 
built? And how the instructions you never paid 
attention to suggested painting them before gluing 
them together? The same applies here. Trying to 
select individual polygons in a complex, finished 
model can be just as harrowing. Naming as you 



build is much easier, 

tf you look at the picture of the finished Pod, 
note that each area that looks different has a 
unique surface name. This model had about a 
dozen surfaces, while an object like Babylon 5 
itself has well over a hundred. 

Once the object has had its surfaces named, 
you can begin to apply rudimentary colour and 
texture to it, usually by simply moving numeric 
sliders or typing in a percentage. Parameters such 
as colour, diffusion (how much light it gets), 
specularity (shininess), transparency and others 
can be easily defined (any good 3D manual will get 
into the details, which differs for every program). 

While this method works well for broad 
surface settings, precise control over the look of 
an object can only be had by actually painting it 
with image maps - actual pictures containing the 
detail you wish to see on a particular surface 
(panels, markings, numbers, multiple colours, etc). 

We'll start by painting, or 'mapping', the most 
complex surface, the pod sides. 

X MARKS THE SPOT 

Remember that important talk last month about 



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shape of the object is the tough part, this screengrabbing technique makes 
life easy! Now it's just tike a colouring book... 



FIGURE 6: The finished colour map. This Is a good place to add decafs, 
Insignlas, warning signs or anything else that must be in colour. Very often a 
colour map Is not needed at all and the solid object colour set in Lightwave 
Is enough. The yellow box shows how the image must be cropped. 




FIGURE 7: The results of the colormap alone. Although the map Itself 
contains few colours, note how the natural shading of the object gives the 
appearance of far more. See how easy this all Is? 



FIGURE 8: Back to DPaint for the diffusion map! Diffusion tells us how much 
light hits an object. It will specify which areas get more or less light; It will not 
obscure the colour map, but augment It and create the Illusion of more colour. 



the X,Y and Z axis of 3D? Well, it's back to haunt 
you. These directions are also important to 
mapping. Just as any polygon is built along these 
3 axis, they must also be mapped this way. Since 
the left and right sides of the pod are standing 
along the X axis, they must be mapped this way. 
For convenience, they should be named "Pod X" 
(see figure 3). In addition, unlike a 'real' model, 
you don't have to worry about painting both sides. 
As long as you select and name both the left and 
right halves of the pod "Pod X", the map will travel 
straight through one side and apply itself to the 
other (after all, the object is symmetrical). In you 
wanted each half of the pod to be unique, you 
could name each side differently. 

The map you are going to paint needs to be in 
exactly the same shape as the surface it will be 
applied to. The easiest way to do this is to use the 
object itself to create an outline you can load into 
a paint program, Figure 4 shows how the side view 
of the pod body was dragged out and enlarged (the 
Lightwave grid and points visibility were also turned 
off). By using a program such as Art Department 
Professional (or one of many PD utilities), you can 
grab a screenshot of this view, providing you with 



an IFF image of the modeler screen. 

Figure 5 shows this image (with the tool 
buttons painted out) loaded into Deluxe Paint. This 
is a perfect place to start from. Whatever you 
draw within this area will be applied to the side of 
the pod - just imagine you are actually painting 
the model itself! Figure 6 gives a suggestion of 
what a good colour map would look like, including 
hazard stripes and lots of little details. 

Remember, the map must be the same, exact 
shape as the pod. When you've finished, you must 
save the colour map as a brush, dragging out the 
square brush box to the precise edges of the 
image (don't worry about the black areas that fill 
out the square). The yellow outline in figure 6 is a 
simulation of what your drag box should look like. 
Using the 'Crop Visual' operator in Art Department 
(if you have it) can make this easier. 

Once the map and object are loaded up into 
your 3D package (preferably Lightwave), the 
map should be applied to the appropriate 
surface as a planar image map (meaning flat) 
along the X axis. Figure 7 displays what the colour 
map alone looks like. What a difference! This 
certainly looks better, but it still needs more - 



something else to bring it to life. 

TEXTURE MAPS 

Yes, I'm sure many of you thought a colour map 
was a texture map but, in order to understand 
them, it helps to separate the categories. A colour 
map hides your object and replaces the surface, 
while a texture map augments it; modifies it; 
textures it. A texture map won't change the colour 
of your object (or its colour map) - only enhance 
what's there. 

Take a look around you. Most surfaces you 
see - a wall, a table, a computer - all contain 
perhaps several primary colours; the rest is 
lighting and texture. That wall may be a solid grey, 
but the small bumps and dirt are what gives it 
' character - what makes it real. This texture is 
what can transform a dull, ordinary 3D object into 
a sexy, new, exciting 3D object. 

Perhaps the only secret' to the look of 
Babylon 5 is its wide use of high-tech 'paneling' on 
just about every object. These panels, created 
with a diffusion map, help break up a flat, single- 
colour surface by adding contrast in an interesting, 
science fiction-like pattern. As a specular map, 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



36 TUTORIAL 





FIGURE 10: When specularity Is turned on, a shine runs across the object. 
However, the surfaces are affected uniformly, and the shine looks fake. In 
fact, the work done with the colour and diffusion maps seems negated! 







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FIGURE 11: Using the diffusion map as also a specular map fixes this. It tells 
the object which areas (in the shape of panels, of course) are more or less 
shiny. This works in the same areas as the diffusion map and creates a 
cohesive pattern with realistic contrast. 

they give an object an exciting, metallic shine 

without it looking like plastic (a problem found in 

many 3D animations that don't use specular 

maps), figures 8-11 illustrate this. 

Since colour and texture maps can live 

peacefully with each other, you can add detail to 
• the pod sides without disturbing what you've 
; already done, figure 11 shows the panel diffusion 

map in Deluxe Paint, created in the same fashion 

as the colour map - by starting with the wire-frame 

outline and filling it in. Texture maps need only be 

black and white, since they actually shade the 

colours already there without adding new ones. 

The light and dark areas of a texture map define 

how light or dark the surface will be (in the case of 

diffusion} or how shiny (with specularity) - they 

don't actually cover anything (although it may look 

■like it). 

The panel map you see would work fine as 

ath a diffusion and specular map. If you wanted 

our ship to be shinier, simply brighten the map in 

an image processor and save it as a separate 

specular map (remember, brighter in a texture map 

means more, with white equalling 100% and black 
ft). You would apply it the same way you did the 



FIGURE 12: The camouflage pattern was not drawn, but generated with a 
fractal procedural texture. The cockpit had an even stranger texture applied. 
At the click of a button, these Images can also pulsate and move, sometimes 
useful to create the Illusion of smoke or even tire. 



colour map, as a planar image map along the X axis. 

FINISHING UP 

Other areas of the pod should be mapped 
similarly, although a precise image map need not 
be created for 'generic' areas of the object. 

Take the boxy 'shoulders' that attach the arms 
to the body of the pod. Since they are mostly 
square, a cubic diffusion map of paneling was the 
only image added to it (the colour was created by 
Lightwave sliders - the shading produced by the 
diffusion map was good enough). Cubic mapping 
takes any image (square shaped is best) and 
maps it along the X,Y and Z axis of an object 
simultaneously. This is also how the roof, floor, 
nose and entire backside of the Pod were mapped. 
In fact, most surfaces in Babylon 5 are created 
this way, using a full-screen, generic image of 
panels, saving custom mapping for the larger, 
more visible areas. 

A great way to dirty down an object is to 
apply a procedural texture, usually some form of 
fractal pattern (see figure 11). This type of texture 
is computer-generated and can create very 
handsome surfaces without much effort. These 



patterns (usually in dozens of varieties, popular 
ones including brick, wood and checkerboards) 
will cover an entire surface with ease and 
save you the trouble of painting such 
commonplace textures. Maps can also be 
scanned in from books and magazines and later 
cropped to fit a surface. 

These other techniques can be a welcome 
addition to image mapping, although some people 
try to take the easy way out and use only scanned 
or computer-generated textures. While this may fit 
the bill in many cases, there is simply no quality 
substitute for a good, hand drawn image map. A 
light fractal pattern to make a surface look more 
'weathered' will often be added to our models, 
but that is usually the extent of procedural 
textures on Babylon 5. 

With Detail painting out of the way, there 
should be little stopping you from finishing that 
Work Pod. These fundamentals of image mapping, 
along with a good software manual, should be all 
you need to get going and create some fantastic 
objects. The only step missing now is how to 
actually animate the thing. 

But that's next month... O 



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3455 DELUXE GALAGA V2.4 

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3454 ROB'S HOT STASH #20 

Loads more Mega utils!! 

3453 FREE FORM 3D V1 .88 

030+ FPU required 

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You guessed it. More Utils! 

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Internet Utils 

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3442 ROBS HOT STASH #18 

HD required for these. 

3441 VIRUS WORKSHOP 4.3 

Up to date virus killers 

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3342 ROBS HOT STASH #16 

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3428 THIRD DIMENSION #4 

3427 THIRD DIMENSION £3 

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3425 THIRD DIMENSION #1 

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3420 TERM V4.1A 

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3419 MULTI USER V1. 8 

Hard drive protection util. 

3418 IMAGINE 3 BITS 

Attibutes & fonts etc 

3417 IMAGINE 3 BITS II 

More attribs & fonts. 

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Genealogical Database 

3415 VIDEOTRACKER V2.0 

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PATCH pagestream Update r 

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Cyberpunk Magazine 

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Cardset for Klondike AGA 

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Greek Mythology disk 

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3D construction kit users mag. 

3408 FACES CARDSET 

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3405 CG FONTS #19 

3404 CG FONTS #18 

Compugraphic fonts disks 

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3393 INDYCAR CHALLENGE 

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3392 FLAMING ENGINES 

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3391 CG FONTS #17 

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3390 BIRTHDATE HISTORY V2.21 

What happened when you were 

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3389 (AB) JiNX 

25 level puzzle game! 



3388 MR BROWNSTONE 

Boulderdash type game 

3387 CHESS PUZZLES & TUTOR 

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3386 (AB) STARTREK GUIDE 

Comprehensive Episode guide. 

3385 (AB) MAG. E ISSUE 5 

More Sci Fi stuff! 

3384 SONIC DRUMKIT V2.0 

Good Synth drum kit 

3383 ROBS HOT STASH #15 

Nice mix of new utils. 

X3382 WB3.0 BACKDROPS 

79 superb backdrops 

3381 ROBS HOT STASH #14 

Mor superb utils! 

3380 (AB) GRAPEVINE 20 

Yes! Its here at last! 

3379 THE FAR SIDE SLIDES 

Alternative slideshow! 

3378 SEKA 32 PRO 

Adventure compiler (demo) 

3377 SPELLTRIS 

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3376 WORDPLAY 

5 word puzzle games 

3375 M.U.I. V2.2 

Enhance Workbench 

3374 ROBS HOT STASH #13 

Superb Hot batch of utils 

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2 excellent games 

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3371 (ABCD) ADOBE FONTS 

For use with Imagine 3 

3370 EVILS DOOM 

Dungeon Master (ish) 

X3369 COMPLEX 'PEEWEE' 

Great AGA only demo 

3368 CASSINI V3.2 

Detailed Astronomy prog 

3367 ZYRAD II 

Puzzle / Arcade Action 

3366 ROCKETS 

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3365 AREXX GUIDE 

Beginners start here. 

3364 KIDS DISK 6 

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3362 PROBOARD 

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3361 SANTA & RUDOLPH 

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THROUGH THE RED DOOR 



THE AMIGA SHOPPER AWARDS 39 



The Amiga Shopper Awards 



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And who better is there to pick the products 
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And don't forget the final category - The 
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This will be decided by the Editor of this magazine, 
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This month Wavey has been surfing in cyberspace, wandering 
around the World Wide Web, and investigating the darkest corners 
of the on-line systems to bring you all the latest news and gossip. 



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Good day to you and welcome aboard for 
another excursion on the information 
superhighway. This month we'll be 
talking politics, rock V roll and I'll be 
shamelessly plugging my new Internet book, All 
You Need To Know About (snip - Ed) 

CYBER- POLITICS 

It's taken a while, but finally ft looks like the 
people who run this country have actually woken 
up and found they are living in the 1990s. Yes, 
politicians are slowly discovering the Internet! OK, 
so MPs here are not as Wired as their 
counterparts on the other side of the big pond 
that's true, but at least it's a start. Already you 
can send Email to Tony Blair 
ttony.blair@geo2.geonet.de), Paddy Ashdown 
(paddyashdown@cix.compulink.co.uk) and David 
Sh aw ( d avi d @dcsh aw.de mon . co.uk). 

Who is David Shaw? Well, he is the only Tory 
MP that I know of who has an Internet Email 
address. Sadly, you can't get in touch with 
johnmajor@dull.grey.eo.uk yet. Of course, this is all 
well and good, but do they listen to your opinions 
when expressed by Email any more than they do 
when you write by conventional means? Less, it 
would appear. 

There is a story doing the rounds that 
somebody complained that Tony Blair didn't 
answer his Email, and was told to put the 
complaint in writing and post it! 

Things are looking up though, because the 
Government Information Service announced its on- 
line presence just a few days previous to me 
writing this column. Here's the lowdown: 

The World Wide Web site is located at 
http://www.open.gov.uk and contains links to 
information on HM Treasury, Citizens' Charter, 
Dept Of Trade And Industry, Her Majesty's 
Stationery Office and more. Nothing particularly 
exciting, but then we are talking UK politics here. 

An HM Treasury mailing list is operating from 
majordomo@hm-treas ury.gov.uk and documents 
are available by FTPmail from ftpmail@hm- 
treasury.gov.uk (just send a message with the 
word help in the text for more details of these). An 
FTP site is situated at ftp.hm-treasury.gov.uk 

WHO WANTS TO BE A 
MILLIONAIRE? WAVEY DOES! 

Looks like everyone wants to be a millionaire if the 
launch of the National Lottery was anything to go 
by, and I'm no exception. Actually I am an 
exception, because I won a £10 prize on the first 
lottery, and I won using numbers selected in 
cyberspace. Delphi has set up its own National 
Lottery forum, and as well as talking about the 
best ways to win you can use the Delphi random 
number generator to pick your numbers. I asked 
this amazing device to pick six numbers between 
one and 49, and three of them were called in the 



first draw. So how can you use the latest 
technology to do the same? Here's how it works: 

1) You need to be a member of Delphi (phone 
0171 757 7080 for details). 

2) Join the National Lottery forum by typing 
Go National. 

3) Select the Conference option. 

4) Type Join Lotto. 

5) Type /groll. 

6) Type /roll 6d49. 

The random number generator then rolls six 
49-sided dice and presents you with the numbers. 
Each time you type /roll 6d49, the dice roll and 
you'll get a new set of six numbers! 

BEAM ME UP SCOTTIE 

And staying with Delphi for the moment, the 
official UK Star Trek fan club have opened an on- 
line support forum. You can buy merchandise, chat 
with other Truckers (that is the right term isn't it?), 
and even download Star Trek goodies. And who 
says that cyberspace is full of train spotters, 
anoraks, and sci-fi freaks? 

AMAZING AMIGA 
WEB RESOURCES 

In response to a large number of Email requests 
for help in finding Amiga resources on the Internet, 
I've been off searching the World Wide Web to see 
what I could find. And I don't think you'll be 
disappointed if you start off by pointing your World 
Wide Web browser in the direction of 
http: //www.c s.cmu.edu:8001/Web/People/mjw/C 
omputer/Amiga/MainPage .html 

From here you find yourself presented with a 
veritable treasure chest of Amiga-related choices. 
How about reading the well-respected electronic 
Amiga magazine Amiga Report on the World Wide 
Web? (With AmigaGuide if you use Amiga Mosaic 
of course). Or what about taking a look at the 
latest news about Commodore, the Picasso II 
board, or the Video Toaster? There is an option to 
look at software resources, and this includes a 
fast link straight to the massive Aminet software 
archive, as well as information of interest to all 
AMOS and ARexx users. 

The Projects option is also interesting - as 
well as pages about the use of the Amiga in films 
there's a wonderful gallery of Amiga-generated 
artwork. Usenet Newsgroups and Amiga mailing 
lists can be accessed by following the User 
Support link, and developers and manufacturers 
are well served in the Companies section. If you 
opt for the Elsewhere link you find yourself 
transported across cyberspace to many different 
and varied Amiga World Wide Web sites. 

If you are serious about your Amiga, and 
serious about your Comms, which I know you must 
be or you wouldn't be reading Amiga Shopper now 
would you, then you really have a duty to check out 
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as well and let the people who make it possible 
know how much you appreciate their hard work. 
On-line Amiga resources are scarce enough, the 
few people who are actually doing something out 
there in cyberspace deserve as much 
encouragement as we can give them. 

HEY, YOU, GET OFF 
OF MY CLOUD 

It was hailed by the media as the rock 'n' roll 
event of the century - the first ever live rock 
concert on the Internet courtesy of The Rolling 
Stones. Yes, if you happened to be in a position to 
point some seriously high-powered computer 
hardware in the general direction of 
http://www.stones.com on the night of Friday 18th 
November, then you could have joined countless 
other disappointed music lovers in watching some 
slow and fuzzy video of Mick and the lads strutting 
their stuff. 

This 20-minute concert was meant as a taster 
for a pay-as-you-view concert The Stones are 
planning. For the ordinary user like you and me 
though, with bog standard Internet connections 
and not the direct pipelines on to the MBONE (a 
high-powered system that allows for fast video 
transfers), it was something of a let down. Not 
exactly bringing music to the masses, just to the 
very privileged few. 

COMPUSERVE NEWS 

The big daddy of on-line systems, CompuServe, 
has announced plans to bring the Internet to its 
members during 1995. Already CompuServe 
subscribers can send and receive Email, read 
Usenet News, but coming soon will be the ability 
to use the World Wide Web, FTP, Telnet and the 



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live on the Net. 



The Official Rolling Stones Web Site 



rest. CompuServe are also writing their own World 
Wide Web browser, and informed me that the 
reason they are taking their time to introduce this 
increased-access service is so they can make 
everything graphical and very much point-and-click 
for their members. 

Of course, this will be done by developing new 
versions of WinCIM and MacCIM, so once again 
Amiga users will find themselves left out. I know 
the future of Commodore is still in doubt, but 
there are so many Amiga users out in the big wide 
world that it really amazes me that so many on-line 
systems and service providers still choose to 
ignore them! Take a virtual raspberry for letting the 
side down, CompuServe. 

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? 
NETBUSTERS! 

I recently attended the second Annual General 
Meeting of Community, the Computer 
Communicators' Association. This is the 
organisation that exists to help protect the rights 
of the people who use computer communications 
in the UK, as well as promoting Comms and 
cyberspace in general. The AGM was very poorly 
attended, the fact that it was a cold winter's 
evening in Stevenage might not have helped, but it 
struck me that this was a particularly poor show 
by the virtual community. 

Come on, I know there are lots of you who 
care passionately about your Comms, so why 
aren't you supporting Community? The association 
have a Fido echo, a Usenet newsgroup, a CiX 
conference, a mailing list, and even an electronic 
newsletter. If you want to find out more, and I urge 
you to do so, then write to Community, 7 Primrose 
Road, Halton, Leeds LS15 7RS. 



Alternatively you can join the uk.org. community 
Usenet Newsgroup, or contact them by Email at 
community@arkham.demon.co.uk. Community 
costs just £5.00 per year to join (with a voluntary 
donation of a further £5.00 requested If you are in 
full-time employment). 

Community is concerned with promoting 
greater access to cyberspace, protecting the rights 
of people using computer-based communications, 
and preventing misrepresentation of the on-line 
community. If you care about your Comms, if you 
are interested in protecting your Internet, then you 
really should be supporting them. 

LATE NEWS 

As I go to press news has come in of a very 
snazzy Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Client for the 
Amiga. Going by the name of Grapevine 
it runs on machines using Workbench 3.0 or above 
and AmiTCP. Grapevine offers a graphical 
interface approach to IRC, and I have had some 
very good reports from people who have used it to 
get onto the IRC. You can get hold of a copy now 
by FTP from any Aminet site, such as 
wuarchive.wustl.edu. 

SHAMELESS PLUG! 

My new book, All You Need To Know About The 
Internet, is available now from Future Publishing. It 
costs just £14.95 and includes special offers from 
many of the UK's leading on-line systems and 
Internet access providers. If Internet, Modems, 
And The Whole Comms Thing got you interested in 
the Net then the new book is just the ticket to 
take you further on your travels. Oh, and I've got 
a wife and kids to support as well. Honest Injun! 
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scanner with software £220. Phone 
Keith Miles 0223 213 704. 
Exchange AMOS and assembly code, 
Chris Evans 44 Shady Lane, RRT, St 
Thomas, ON Canada, N5P 3T2. 
A1200 10 Meg 340 Mb hard drive 
colour monitor, modem, 2nd drive, 2 
joysticks, over 300 disks, £850 ono 
or swap for 486DX: PC system. Phone 
0946 62225 and ask for Ian. 
A1200 hawk 4 Mb RAM expansion 
board 18 months guarantee £170. 
120 Mb hard drive £160. Call David 
0743 231022 anytime. 
Supra 50ORX for Amiga 500 or 500+ 
S meg RAM board 2 meg populated 
£100 ono. Call Gerry on 061 654 

8617. 

A1S00 3Mb RAM 52Mb hard drive 

new oktagon 2008 controller board. 
WB2 PWS manuals etc. £350 canon 
BJlOex printer £120, 40Mb 2.5 Inch 
IDE hard drive £60, Call alan on 071 
225 1080. 

WWF Wrestelmanla and European 
Rampage £5.00 each. Also, Zool 1 
and Body Blows £7.50 each. All 
boxed with instructions or sways all 
for any hardware. Call Stephen on 
08687 84681. 

A1200 6Mb RAM 64Mb hard drive 
loads of utility software and games. 
Runs faster than A400 030 £600. 
Tel: Southport 0704 550675. Mary 
sell separately. 
32 Bit 68020 accelerator 
A500/20O0 including 2M RAM £95. 
Philips 8833 monitor, as new £135. 
A500 HD 40 Meg included. 2M RAM 
£90 2.04 upgrade exchip, £20, Tel: 
0604 721 578. 

Amiga Shopper complete collection 
issues 1-43 inclusive excellent 
condition - offers? Ring Steve early 
evening s on 0532 784201. 
Professional Amiga software, SAS 
C6. 3 development system. Broadcast 
Titler 2 sculpt animate 4D. Didview 
plus camera. Opus 4. Anl magic etc. 
No reasonable offers refused. Will 
split TeL; 01709 835 658 evenings. 
Areal 2.5" IDE harddrlve 80 Mb. 12 
months old, £135. Can fit drive if 
needed. Software with drive for 
installation. 

Amiga 2000 Meg board £30 20 Meg 
H/drive £0 modulator £15 PC 
brldgeboard £30 keyboard £10 3.5" 
and 5.25" drives £15 each. Phone 
Ken 051 630 1377. 
A12O0, 210 Mb, 4 Meg RAM 



expansion with 20 Mhz FPU, ext drive 
2 Joysticks, tons of software including 
DParmv final writer 2, supercalc, 
settlers £600 only. Call alan 081 
5590 1773. 

Golden Bate 386SX Bridge Board 
2Mb on board Ram, SVGA card. 
Monitor master, £350 ono (0506) 
834913 evenings. Will deliver centre! 
Scotland. 

A600/1200 4Meg HAM card £99.00 
SCALA 200 £50.00. 
Edward price, Eesthorpe Mill, 
Easthorpe Road, Bottesford, Notts, 
NG13 ODS. Tel: 0949 843 177. 
A4000-040 ZSMhI. RAM 4Mb hard 
drive 120Mb work bench 3.0 very 
large selection of software. Includes 
cubscan 1440 monitor, serious offers 
only! Call Evenings, 
A12O0, 2Mb RAM expansion, 
68882, FPU monitor, extra drive, 
imagine 3.0, Pagesetter 3. Loads of 
games, software, PD, hardware and 
magazines worth £1800+ sell for 
£750. Phone James on 0634 
790848, evenings. 
A4000-040 25Mnz, RAM 4 Mb hard 
drive 120 Mb Work bench 3,0 very 
large selection of software. Includes 
cubscan 1440 monitor serious offers 
Call Evenings 0949 843 177. 
Imagine 3 for sale. Only £€0 with 
manual and ill throw in imagine 2.9 
as weflll Call Danny on 081 427 
2933 evenings, buyer collects. 



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equipment info 

cash with Amiga 

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A50O+ 2 meg £195 GVP HD500 52 

meg £195 4x1 meg SIMMS £100 
Philips 8833 MK2 £100, swift 9C 
printer £90, EVC deck £100, video 
director, SCALA 500, pretext, Edit 
deck, Bigalt. Scroller, Call Monty on 
081 561 4071. 

Amiga 4000/040 10 Mb RAM 210 
Mb HD, EGS 28/24 2Mb 24 bit 
graphic card, SAS CH other software, 
under warranty, £1500 ono. Call Lee 
on (0684) 275 832. 
Amiga 1500 WB2 1+llMb RAM 
220Mb hard drive 1084 monitor GVP 
68030/33 accelerator very fast can 
be seen working loads of software eg 
Gigamem DTP offers OAvid 081 741 
0355 London. 

A520 modulator GC £16.00 Inc. 
P&P, amiga 500/+ internal disk drive 
GWO onfy £25.00 two 1 meg 30 pin 
slmms, suit GVP etc £50.00 or swap 
for handheld scanner. Call Andy 
0983 294295. 

A1SO0 GVP SCSI 120 Hd. 3 meg 
RAM. 8 pin printer, philips monitor, 
external speakers VGC, £500 or 
nearest offer James 01484 659572. 
A1200 170Mb VIPER 28Mlu 030 2 
megs fast. PSU, mouse, etc, £500 or 
offers. Ring quickly for details James 
01484 659 572. 

Citizen Swift 240C nearly two years 
old. Excellent condition complete with 
manuals and driver, £150 selling to 
upgrade. Call Kneale 0427 617559. 
SCALA Pro £45, directory OPUS V.30 
£25, deluxe Video 111 £30. D paint IV 
£20. Imagine Video 90 minutes USA 
Import PAL version £15. Tel: 01298 
22862 A1500 twin F drives, 9 meg 
RAM 200 Mb and 52 Mb Internel 
hard drives, genlock, midi and 200 
disks and GVP SCSI interface + 
Philips stereo monitor £600 
Call Mark 0533 593 69. 
Ian Telxelra, 14 Wordsworth Road, 
Thatcham, Berks, RG13 4DF, Tel: 
0636 866669. 

A1200 trapdoor expansion with 8Mb 
RAM fitted. Offers over £160 or 
consider exchange for bubblejet or 
WKJET printer. Phone 0635 866669 
after 7.30pm. 

Spirit hard disc card for A2000 SO 
Meg drive £100. Spirit 8 Meg RAM 



card (4 Megs populated) for A2000 
£80, phone 0181 813 6260. 
Amiga 3000/25Mfn/7Mb 
RAM/105Mb HD Workbench 3.1 
multisync monitor, handscanner, 
colour printer, dual high density disk 
drive and IBM_PC emulation plus 
genuiine senuos and leisure software. 
Fully boxed with instructions £1,000, 
Call 071 328 1377, 
GVP HC8+ Impact 2, Slmb 
Quantum, 2 Mb fast RAM SIMM's 
boxed as new. for A1500 to A4000, 
£250 ono Trllogic sound sampler, 
leads and software v good condition 
(all Amigas) £25. 
Amiga 82000 with SSL A5OO0 
accelerator 68020, 68881, 2 megs 
32 bit RAM expand to 4 megs, full 
ECS, 1 meg chip, mlcroway flicker 
fixer, £300 ono 
Cosham 0705 387 555. 
Two 32 bit 1 Mb 72 pin SIMMS 
suitable for A400 fast RAM expansion 
or some A1200 RAM cards. £60 for 
the pair. Call James after 5 pm on 
0249 654287. 

Amiga 1500 with workbench 3,1 OS 
chip and 40Mb hard disk installed 
also with 3Mb RAM, £300 call Helen 
on 081 552 3610 after 8pm. No 
offers please. 

Power G re/Scale scanner V2 £50. 
Amitek 2Mb PCMOIA card £50. 
Trojan light pen £20. Various 
software Tel: 01622 743183. 
A40Q/040 10 Mb 120Mb HD. 24 
Pin printer Diropus ImageFx Real 3D 
2.49 Spectrum Egs 2Mb card £1800 
ono. Will split, extra mem available. 
Call mark 0689 813 442 Pm best. 
A1200 6Mb 85Mb HD CMS833.11 
monitor external drive. Chzer 240C 
colour printer. All boxed 
games/applicator inc. 
AMOSPRO/eompiler Pagesetter 3 
joysticks, mice, magazines, £250. 
Call Phlt after 6pm on 081 360 1443. 
Upgrade your A4O0/O30 with a 
Commodore A3640 card, 25Mhz 
68040 CPU as fitted to A4000/040 
£450. Barry winter Denmark 010 45 
98 183 564. 

A500+ 2meg Rom sharer, A570 CD 
Rom. action replay ext disk drive 
original maunais, joystick games etc, 
mint condition £250. Contact DAve 
0708 453388. 

Amiga 1200 127 MB HD mouse. 
Joystick, software including Dennis, 
Syndicate. Pinball. DPaint etc 
manuals + book Inc Epson AQ400 
printer. All £650 call Vlnny on (0903) 
234800 after 6 pm. 
A1500 GForce 040 card: 4MB 32 bit 
ram: 240MB SCSI HD + fallback 
Nexus 50MB SCSI HD 2MB fast ram: 
8833 monitor rocgen +; Imagine 
DPaint 4 video studio scala B.Titler2 
+ manuals £1550 o.n.o. Sandbach 
(0270) 759378. 

Amiga 1200 lOMeg RAM FPU 80 
Meg H/Drive lightrave brilliance Adpro 
disk expander software 24 H colour TV 
£800 o.n.o. 

Fractal generator for sale £25. 
Includes Mandelbrot. Julia, Newton 
and many other types. Also does 3D, 
takes advantage of AGA chip set. 
contact Shane on (0703) 554666. 
A3000 18Mb 335HD 24btt GVP 
spectrum, 1/0 extender Epsom 300C 
scanner ASDG art department SASC 
Imagine Playmation Morph + 
Pagestream all complete current 
versions must sell £1,500 call Darius 
10785) 58731, 

A1200 8SMeg HDrive mlcrovltec 
multisync monitor, speakers, joystick, 
leads £1500 worth of software 
games/serious all for £700, Call 
Mark on 081/360/4946. 
A500 + 4MD Ram. S VP HD+ 42Mb 
hard drive, 1084S monitor, mouse, 
Joystick, final writer, 100' s of PD, 
games and serious software £450 
o.n.o. Call Dave on (0278) 458608. 
Amiga 1200 200 HDD £400o.n.o. 
CD32 10 games, mags £200 boxed 
ideal present Power Twin DD x copy 
£70. Many games £3 £10 blank 
disks £3 for ten. Call 
081/386/2092. 

Amiga 1200 with 65Mb hard disk 
and 4Mb ram expansion 1 year old, 
good condition bargain at £650. Call 
Mark for details (01885) 488835. 
Amiga CD32 with extra Pro 
controller and Banshee plus a few 
other games £230 o.n.o. Call Mark 



On (01885) 488835. 

Amiga 1500 with 40Mb SCSI hard 

disk 1Mb chip 2Mb fast ram 286 

bridge board and 40Mb IDE hard disk 

KS 2.0 WB 2,1 nicker fxer bargain 

£500 o.n.o. (01885) 488835. 

SAS/C 6.2 with manuals, all boxed 

as new £120. Call David 

091/388/4420. 

Delux paint 4(AGA). Blitz Baslc2. 

boxed, manuals etc. Games: Amiga 

and SNES. Top titles, will consider 

swaps. "Complete Amiga C" 

especially wanted. Contact 

081/886/1257 and ask for Imran. 

Complete Amiga C, dlrworkz £10 

each or swap for RKM libraries 1.3, 

utility CD's etc. Call Dave (0785) 

660451. 

Cheap Amiga games for sale; Kick 

Off 3, Elfmaia, Impossible Mission 

and many more. For list send s.a.e, to 

: H.Fu, 6 Wiltshire Street, Salford, M7 

2AW. 

A500 WB 2.04 Rom new unused 

£10. Power computing 8Mb ram 

expansion board populated with 2Mb 

boxed as new £70. Call Derek 

(0749)672188. 

H/Drive for 1200 65Mb with manual 

plus disc £100. Call R. Williams 

(0903) 724805. 

Amiga 4000/030 10 Mb ram 120Mb 

HD muitiscan monitor 25Mhz CoPro 

Genlock VIDI 12RT stereo master 

sampler Imagines Xead 2000 £1200 

o.n.o. Call (0403) 242102. 

SCSI/ram board (GVP) for A1200 

33Mhz 6B8B2 CaPra. 4Mg. 32b ram 

£210. Conner 100M h/d 3.5in SCSI 

£70. Rodime 200M ditto £80. 

PCMCIA card 4 MB £90. Call (0202) 

733665. 

68040 accelerator for 1500 2000 

boxed as new 4Mb 32bit super fast 

ram also have a fast HD interface and 

52Mb drive make me an offer. Call 

Dan (0962) 885907. 

1940 Dual sync monitor £130 boxed 

as new 1 month warranty remaining. 

Call VI JAY on 081/951/3342, buyer 

to collect. 

Mlcrobotlcs MBX1200 RAM 

expansion with no FPU + 0MB. Hence 

only £20 inc p&p. Call Julian on 

(0742) 438542. 

A1200 with 120Mb hard disk set up 

ready to run my new A4000 forces 

sale £450 o.n.o. Call Sean (0473) 

464897. 

Commodore 2320 display enhanced 

(flicker fixer) for big box Amgla's 

complete with manual and disc, 

£140. Call L Hellawell on (0274) 

662275. 

A500+ upgraded to 2 Megs, mouse, 

modulator photon paint, operation 

stealth, elf. lemmings, bart Simpson, 

California games, lotus 2, warzone all 

boxed as new complete with WB 2,0 

and manuals, £145.00. Call Paul 

(0923) 253853. 

JVC HRS580O superb HIFI SVHS 

editing VCR with jog shuttle.insert 

edit, dubbing etc, boxed and as new, 

£575. Call (0694) 723827. 

A1200 80Mb H/D boxed 

race/chase star LC200 loads of 
software inc Penpal SenslSoc PGA all 
as new £600 also available Toshibatv 
Yamaha PSS580 keyboerd (Midi 
compatible) - Telephone (0902) 
373028 after 5pm. 
Issue 1-42 of Amiga Shopper In 
binders all subscribers disks data 
base index for first 17 issues £40, 
Telephone 061/477/7741. 
6MB A1200 200MB/ HD, 1084S, 
external drive, control centre, mouse. 
Joystick switcher, 2 joysticks, 800 
games etc, 200 blanks, 150 Amiga 
magazines all for £1250 o,n,o. Call 
after 6 pm (0322) 556189, 

A30O0/25Mhz, 105Mb SCSI hard 

drive, 10Mb ram. Multisync monitor 
1.3 and 2.04 kickstarts. Good 
condition £800. Call Paul 
021/373/5057. 
A4000 030 4Mb 120 HD 1960 
monitor, software all boxed 18 
months old £1200 o.n.o. Call Tom 
(0642) 612069 after 6pm. 
Supra Tax plus new unused 
unregistered 9600 throughout with 
software £90. Final copy II £35. Cell 
Ian on (0264) S50482. 
Wordworth 3.06 latest version, os 
new sensible offers around £50. Call 
Ian on 021/355/2233. 
A4000+ QVP-GForce 68040/40 



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accelerator 180meg HD ISmeg ram 
Opalvlsion MicroVttec Multisync 
monitor Rendale Super 6802 Genlock 
Colour Re FrameMaster Seals MM300 
& Echo Brilliance 2 AdPro 2.5 and 
more for quick sale £2950. Call 
(0344) 422707. 

Microvitec 1438 monitor 6 months 
old, as new, boxed £225 lattice "C 
V5.0 £50 AMI-64-LINK Interface and 
software £22 Kickstart 2.04 rom 
£15. Call Alec 01202 721166 6pm- 
3pm. 

Xenon, Star Trek 25th. Frontier, 
Wing Commander, Dune and Desert 
Strike all £6 each. Also Wordworth 
2.0AGA for £20. Books A500 Techref 
manual and inside Amiga graphics. 
Call Imran (0274) 392282. 
Amiga software sell between 
£10-£15 each.Amiga 500 and IMeg 
ram, Phillips colour monitor, lots of 
software Including business and 
educational, with joystick and mouse, 
£290. Call Alex 081/8S6/7634. 
A 500+ WB2 2MB chip 4MB fast ram 
52MB GVP HDisk Phillips 8833 
monitor £300. Call (0708) 444B13. 
A500+ 2MB ram rom swapper with 
3.02/1.3. manuals, software etc 
£165 also A590 HD fitted lOOMeg 
hard disk and 2Meg fast ram £195 all 
perfect condition. Call Paul 
021/443/1265. 

Amiga 1200 6Mb ram 120 Mb hard 
drive Viperll, Accel board MicroVitec 
multisync monitor, Zydel hand scanner 
only 4 months old £900 buyer 
collects. Call John on (0633) 484636 
evenings. 

Power computing Houlor hand 
scanner £140 o.n.o. for Amiga 
2000/4000 flicker fixer for same £60 
o.n.o. graphics table 18x18 £70 
o.n.o. Call (0443) 776515. 
Amiga 1200 with hard/d, Monitor, 
printer, Vidi-12 , 200 boxed titles inc. 
DevPae 3, Amos Pro/Complier, Final 
Copy 2, Liberation, Space Quest, Zork 
Zero etc., very cheap prices, Call now 
(0956) 507391. 
Del I NL25 386 SL25 notebook. 
2Meg ram, 60Meg hard drive, 
Microsoft Ballpoint mouse. Original 
software preloaded with DOS 6.2 and 
Windows 3.1 £590. Call Alex 
081/886/7634. 

A1200. 170 Mb HD. real time clock, 
DF1: £425. Supra 144LC Far Modem 
£120. Star LC200 colour printer 
£100, Modem only 4 months old. Call 
Nick ' (0222) 757563 evenings, 
buyer collects. 

A600 2Mb memory. Megalosound 
sampler octamed V5 Music X Imagine 
2.0 Fracltal Pro (eoverdisks) 
Workbench Manuals. £130.00 write 
Andrew, ground floor flat, 16 College 
Grove View, Wakefield, West 
Yorkshire, WF1 3RH, buyer must 
collect. 

A4000/030 4 Mb 250 Mb HD 8833 
monitor Star LC 200 printer extra 
floppy Opus 4 Wordworth DO IV games 
PD magazine all boxed £1000 Call 
Stafford (0733) 366224 daytime or 
T (0733) 234135 evenings. 
Workbench 2.1 upgrade with rem for 
A500 or A2000. Includes 4 manuals; 
DOS, AREXX, hard drives. DOS 
manual covers WB3.0. £40 o.n.o. Call 
Paul on « (0274) 779212. 
Commordore 10845 colour stereo 
monitor to suit all Amiga's brand, new 
hardly used bargain £150.00. Call 
Shaun b (0S27) 59097. 
Workbench 2.04 upgrade kit boxed 
and includes rom chip, disks. 
Instructions and manual. Bargain 
£50.00 Call Alan on 
b (0253) 401751. 
GVP A500+ HDB+ hard drive with 
fast quantum 52Mb drive. Features 
game switch, external SCSI port and 
space to ft up to 8Mb ram. Boxed 
with manual £140.00 Call Alan on 
■» (0253) 401751. 
A12O0 Hawk 2Mb ram expansion 
board fitted with 33Mhz co-processor 
with clock. Boxed, nearly new fits Into 
trapdoor, £140.00, Call Roger 
evenings = 021/449/8295. 
Superb colour prints from your 
computer or comcorder polaroid 
colour printer mint £595.00. Pro copy 
stand and lights £550,00 o.n.n. 
Alphascan plus Hi-RRS monitor 
£200.00 JRL - 
e- 051/424/5733. 
Wordworth 2.0 AGA £25. DPaint 
v4,0 £25. Brilliance vl £40. 
Quarterback tools £15- Commodore 
mouse was supplied with A4000, 
hardly used Includes mat DPaint v2 
and Kindwords v2 £5. Call » (0252) 
879562. 

Communication box with MIDI, 
interface. CD32 to Amiga serial port 
115200 band. Twintxpress, photollte 
on CO, one week old, £80. 
Schrechling Dominique, Montellea, CH 
1806,St-Legier, Switzerland. 
Modem 05 Robotics dual standard 
HST, get into the world of comms 



£220.00. Call Mitchell on 

" (0708) 448357. 

Amiga 1200 6Mb. 80 meg hard disk, 

10845 monitor external disk drive 

DPaint 4, pagesetter 3, Techno Sound 

Turbo, also games £600, Call Karen 

* (0482) 663528. 

Amiga 1200 6Mb ram, 170Mb hard 

disk, 1438 multisynch monitor (new), 

games, ext disk drive, joystick, books. 

magazines all boxed and in new 

condition. Reluctant sale £850 o.n.o. 

Call Greg " (0245) 462265. 

My Amiga Library Must Go] Virtually 

every coverdisk published by 

A/Computing. A/Format, A/Shopper, 

A/Format subscribers, plus Jamdlsks 

and Flshdlsks. Over 200 original 

disks I Sensible offers invited. Call 

v (0675) 442180. 

A3DOO Tower 6S030-25MIU 120Meg 

SCSI, HD FDD Ethernet board 1960 

Multisync monitor, 5Meg ram Flicker 

Fixer, M.MU, FPU built in. Good cond 

£800,00 won't split. Please no 

offersl Call Peter on ** 

061/248/8602. 

Final writer never used, unwanted 

gift, £60.00. Call " 081/346/1876. 

Original 4000 memory chips, call lor 

price, also wanted Amiga 4000 8meg 

slmm, also for sale Amiga 1200 

£250.00 o.n.o. Call Richard on 

■n (0263) 722169. 

Supra Fax modem V.32BIS revision I 

roms, still under warranty £110.00 

Cannon colour ink cart. JI-20C £10. 

Books and software please call 

t (0494) 711223. 

A1200, 3meg ram, 120 meg hd. GVP 

A1230 turbo-t- accelerator. Phillips 

CM8833 MK II monitor and software, 

all boxed and complete. Runs nearly 

twice as fast as 4000/030 £750. 

A500 half meg memory expansion, 

£10,Call » (0656) 783849. 

A1230 turbo+ 68030 accelerator 4 

meg 32 bit ram, 50mhz FPU battery 

backed clock, £375.00 o.n.o. Call 

Paul *» 081/427/5762. 

A5O0 1 Meg WB1.3/2.0 + software 

£125.00. Golem 8 meg expansion 4 

meg POP £100.00. Commodore 1084 

monitor £80.00. Call Brian 

« (0460) 30480. 

352mb Fujitsu IDE hard drive 3.5", I 

inch high 12ms access time, 

£275.00. Call Richard on 

» (0769) 520310. 

VIDI Amiga 12 RT (AGA). hardly used 

and in perfect working condition. 

Pluss correct, quality power supply, 

(not included when bought new), 

£110.00. Call Jason on ■ (0272) 

477763. 

Integra x coiourjet 132 printer 

complete with Amiga driver cost 

£650. Bargain at £300,o.n.o. Call 

Andy on 

it (0229) 463757. 

Workbench OS 2.1 complete 

software and documentlon for users 

with 0S2.04 rom x boxed as new 

£25, plus postage x CDRom Fredfish 

Progs 186 to 930 £12x Call George 

on 

• (0573) 224632 anytime. 

GVP Impact series 2 80Mb hard disk 

+ ram card for A1500 above £220. 2 

x Imeg Slmms £45. Tri logic sampler 

with leads and software £25, Amiga 

Power Issues 1-12 £25. Call Matt on 

^(0793) 825751. 

8Mb 32-bit ram expansion board for 

A1200. c/w battery backed clock and 

FPL sockets boxed as new £160.00 

incl. postage. Call Ian on 

" (0635) 866669. 

CD32 with Liberation, Overkill, Lunar- 

C, Arabian Mights, Labyrinth, Diggers. 

Oscar plus educational CD and 4 

coverdisk CD's. Also extra joystick, 

sound sampler, mouse, scart cable, 

11 original games (Amiga) £180.00. 

Call Chris on " 091/454/2058. 

A500+ 2Mb chip memory and A570 

CD-Rom drive Inc. Sim City CD+ CDPD 

Vol I £200. A500 0.5MB expansion 

£10. Call Maria 

n(0203) 386947 after 6pm. 

Real 3D v2.4, boxed, tlongle etc, 

registered program,also registered 

with Activa BBS. Hardly used £200, 

Call after 6pm on » (0454)326548. 

Blizzard 1230 accelerator plus 

40mhz co-pro £240 o.n.o., Seagate 

2.5" hardrive 210Mb 1DGA for A120O 

all software Inc £210 o.n.o. Call Mr 

Rocks on " (0786) 832679. 

GVP HCS Impact 2, 52Mb Quantum, 

2Mb fast ram for A1500 A2000, 

Boxed as new, £180. Call Barry on 

» (0296) 22669. 

A4O0O/30 2Mb excellent condition. 

under warranty 6882 co-processor 

120Mb HD 3.5 high density drive 

10845 monitor 3.5 external drive 

mouse, mat, joystick, software £800 

o.n.o. Call Steve » (0709) 542284. 

GVP A1230 turbo + accelerator for 

A12O0, SOrnhz 68030 MMV and 4Mb 

fast ram £400. Call Simon 

■■r 091/232/0578. 

Golden Gate 386sx 25 mhz bridge 

board 4Mb extra ram co-processor 



floppy disk chips sound blaster pro- 
card suga card cables and software 
Panasonic CD Rom drive £600. Call 
evenings it (0403) 242102. 
A1200, 68030 accelerator, 6Mb 
32bit ram. Commodore 1942 monitor, 
deskjet 500c printer and 130Mb hard 
disk. Loads of software (Wordworth 3. 
DPaint 4, ProPage 4 etc) all for 
£1,000, Call Paul " (0483) 489530. 
The Works Platinum Edition Software 
and manual. Readysoft 64 emulator 
software hardware and manual, 
Amiga Shopper magazines Issues one 
to latest issue + all disks. Offers to 
John after 6pm, w (0767) 317059. 
A600HD with 60Mb hard disk 2Mb 
ram Commodore 10845 colour 
monitor bug, Joystick and selection of 
software £450. Call Paul evenings 
« (0737) 644433. 

Amiga 600 HD three months old mint 
condition with de-luxe Paint 3 and 
other games £150 with Rockgen plus 
Genlock If required add £70. Call 
» (0654) 702000 evenings or 
t (0654) 703707 daytime. 
IMeg A 500 with 20 Meg hard disk. 
Workstation adaptor, 2 joysticks and 
many games £300. Call Tim 
"(0908)666425, 

Amiga A1200 or A600 Internal floppy 
disk drive (unused) £30 o.n.o. Call 
Paul » (0960) 368S89. 
Power computing 1206 2 Meg ram 
68382 FPU running at 20 mhz £80 
external 3.5 f oppy drive £40. Call 
John » (0494) 715884. 
A 600 2Mb PCMCIA upgrade £70 
cost £110. (Also fits A1200) Call 
MacDonald after 6prn 
1(0463) 243141. 
US Robotics courier HST dual 
standard with fax and ASL modem, 
achieve 16,8O0bis quick sale £275 
o.n.o. Call Jim after 7.30pm 
* 041/552/3739. 
A500 with WB 1.3, 1Mb ram second 
floppy, loads of software, £120, Also 
GVRA530, 120Mb HD, 4Mb ram, 
40MRZ 68030, 68862 FPU, £400. 
Call Rob pm if possible 
■» (0532) 701758. 

Amiga A5O0. Memory expanded to 2 
Meg. Rombo video digitiser. Software 
and all manuals. Joystick. Will split. 
£230 o.n.o. Call « (0684) 564998. 
A300O Kickstart 2.04r«n 
£15 Pagestream 2.22 manuals £35. 
Supra "2400Z: +" internal modem 
Zorro II suit A1500* £40 Workbench 
2,04 ringbound manual VGC £10 
Atalk III manual £10 other items. Call 
Mike « (0446) 775287. 
A1200. 80 meg hard drive, 
MBX1230 accelerator, 50 mhz 
68030, 50mhz 68882, MMU, 6 meg 
ram, high power supply, standard 
power supply, G/Gamem, battery 
backed clock, plus more extra's, 
£830. 

Real 3D 2.4 for sate, boxed as new 
and including extra object and texture 
disks, £240, Incredibly powerful and 
fun to use. Call Darren 
■a (0538) 381458. 
2x1 meg 32-bit ram for Amiga 4000 
£50. Deluxe Paint IV obxed £20 4 
meg IG-Bit ram on card £40. Call 
Graham (0272) 446490, 
Final copy 2, £30. Cold disk 0ffice2 
£20, superplan £5 all as new with 
boxes and full manuals. Call 
» (0623) 631264. 
Mastering Amiga Arexx by Paul 
Overaa £22 new, sell for £14. 
Mastering Amiga Amos by Phil South, 
£20 new, sell for £12. Both mint 
condition. Call Conor 
«■ (0762) 331877. 
Amiga 1500 ECS WB.2 5Mb ram, 
105Mb SCSI HD 1085s monitor 
A2030 Genlock Grey scale scanner, 
tracker ball excellent condition large 
amount serious software games disks 
manuals mags, £750 o.n.o. Call Dave 
■n 051/678/2709. 

Keyboard (A40O0) brand new unused 
£35 inc p/p. Call Derek (0450) 
375081 or BBS (» 0450) 373071 
and E-Mail SYSOP. 

AGOC with 2 Meg upgrade and clock, 
boxed- Also additional external floppy 
disk drive as new complete with 
instruction manual etc £180 o.n.o. 
(super gilt perhaps for some onel) 
Call » (0244) 818062. 
Canon bubble Jet printer BJ 10SX 
excellent condition as new £180. Call 
" 031/339/4919. 
A4000/30 10Mb ram 68882 FPU 
250Mb western digital hard disc lots 
of software including Wordworth3, 
Pagestream 2. HS Pascal plus mags, 
manuals and a free external drive. 
Bargin at £795. Call Mr Crook 
«r 061/793/8477. 
A5O0+ with 2 Mb ram good 
condition £140 o.n.o. Call Paul on 
"■ 061/969/2899. 
Amiga video back up save 150 disks 
to one three hour tape £30 p/p 
included plus free tape. Call Andy 
* 061/790/0962. 
Amiga 500 1 meg batman games 



pack, hardly used, boxed MIDI 
interface rave music sequencer, delux 
Paint II. All manuals and discs. £195 
o.n.o. Call Alan n- (0482) 563440. 
GVP A1230 turbo plus series II. 
(newest version) accelerator with 40 
mhz 68030, 40 mhz 68882 FPU and 
8 megs of 32-bit ram, 6 months 
guarantee £490 o.n.o. Call 
■" (0742) 669287. 
Free postage on my final writer 
release 2 £50. Final copy release 2 
inc P.D. fonts disks £32; Kindwords 3 
£17. Call Adrian now on 
n (0964) 543592. 
A4000/EC030 4Mb ram 120Mb 
HDisk 68882 FPU, Image FX, 
Microvitc 1440 Multisync, lots 
software excellent for video. Bargain 
£999. o.n.o. Call Greg "(0392) 
876847. 

Amiga 1200. 4 meg ram, math CD - 
processor, 256Mb hard disk, BJ10 
printer, 200+ disks, reference 
manuals. DEVPAC III, courier 2400 
modem, v.g.c. £680. Call Terry 
b (0928) 713375. 
Amiga A 500 1Mb ram WB 1.3. 
boxed, vgc, 2 mice, 2 joysticks, 
PenPal DPaint II AMOS, Dungeon 
Master, Lotus Turbo Challenge, F-19, 
Heimdal, many more games and 
utilities, pd, magazines, £140. Call 
Jon ■ (0705) 482700. 
Amiga A4OOO/030 25 mhz FUP 
10Mb ram 340Mb HD power HD 
external disk drive excellent collection 
of software, boxed, as new, £950, 
Call after 6.30pm Ian, 
" 051/476/0341. 
Hama 290 video genlock/ processor 
for Amiga, cost £650, accept £250, 
no offers. Call David (0533) 839858. 
CD32 A1200 120 Mb HDD ABC 
printer 1084S monitor over £800 of 
latest software nothing more than 6 
months old, must go as one. Open to 
sensible offers. Call Paul 
«■ 061/678/8578. 
Amiga 500, 1Mb In checkmate case 
with external keyboard, 46Mb external 
hard drive. Plus various games and 
publishers choice, only £250 o.n.o. 
Also for sale various Amiga books. 
Call t 081/402/0615. 
Amiga 1200, 85Mb HO, extra drive, 
Philips monitor. Ink Jet printer, hand 
scanner, £1000+ of software, 100 
mags, lots of extra's all boxed with 
manuals must sell, all for £750 o.n.o. 
Call * (0257) 426125. 
A3000 120Mb H/D 4Mb ram 
Kickstart 2. 120 discs of various 
software. P.C. forces sale. £250 
o.n.o. Call John on (0634) 579802. 
Amiga Shopper Mags Issues 3 to 41 
including disks £1.50 each, plus p&p. 
Lightpen boxed as new £20. Call 
Stuart n (0480) 890740. 
A1200 as Mb hard drive two W/P 
program with manuals disks 
Workbench 3.0 Seikosha SL96 colour 
printer under warranty leads manuals 
mint condition £570 o.n.o. Call 
n (0736) 64092. 
V LAB 24 bit fiame grabber for 
Amiga's 1500, 2000, and 4000, only 
used once perfect working order, 
£200 o.n,o, contact Simon evenings 
(0924) 890279 or daytime 
■» (0274) 852308. 

A 1500. 3Mb ram. 42 Mb HD, Phillips 
Mkll monitor, Matador scanner 
400 DPJ, pro-graphic + DTP software + 
games mint condition £650. Call 
Simon » (0532) 842366. 
Gastelner A1200 expansion board 
witri 8Mb 32-bit fast ram, 33mtiz 
68882 FPU, battery backed clock. 
Good as new, more than doubles 
speed of A1200, £300 o.n.o. Call 
Jens » 081/429/3506. 
Arngla 1200 127Mb hard drive 
desktop dynamite pack 6 months 
warranty £425.00 o.n.o. Hama 
Genlock 290, 6 months warranty 
£450 o.n.o. (now retails for £750) 
Call Simon « (0703) 512211. 
Amiga A1500. 3Mb 052.04 £200. 
1084S monitor £135 SCSI interface 
£70. 40Mb HD £100, 60Mb £140. 
VIDI 12 digitiser £50. Wordworth 2 
AGA £35, MIDI interface £10, Call 
Lyndon f (0734) 667920. 
Scala MM20O boxed with manuals 
dangle and upgrades, DPaint v4.5 for 
AGA machines, adorage v2 AGA, 
Nexus pro AGA backgrounds, whole 
video gold collection, screenmawer 
24bit Images. Call Dominic 
* (0356) 316749, 
Amiga 500 SRN class of 90s flrtst 
steps pack and all software boxed 
complete plus Philips colour monitor 
CM 8833 MKII plus Joystick 16 
games price £400 o.n.o. Call 
« (0932) 244047. 
12" x 12" digitising tablet 
(summasketch II plus) with pen, Puck 
and driver spftware for DPaint, 
Brilliance etc, and if wanted, overlav 
for XCAD 30 00, £200 o.n.o. Call Dan 
071/226/0365. 

ProPage 2 £50, The Publisher £16. 
Canon BJIDEX inc sheetfeeder£150. 



All inc manuals, original disks etc. 
Call Russell after 6pm (0534) 68390. 
A1200 Hawk 2Mb ram expansion 
hoard fitted with 33Mhz co-processor 
with clock. Boxed nearly new fits into 
trapdoor, £140. Call Roger evenings 
on ■» 021/449/8295. 
Superb colour prints from your 
computer or camcorder polaroid 
colour printer mint £595 pro copy 
stand and lights £550 o.n.o. 
alphascan plus hkrs monitor £200 
JRL. Call Mr Beaulhey on » 
051/424/5733. 

Wordworth 2.0AGA, £25, DPaint 
v4.0, £25, Brilliance vl, £40. 
Quarterback Tools £15 Commodore 
mouse was supplied with A4000 
hardly used includes mat, DPaint v2 
and Kindwords v2, £5. Call Mr 
Browne on n (0252)879562. 
Communications box with MIDI 
interface CD32 to Amiga serial prot. 
115200 band. Twintxpress, Photolite 
on CD one week old £80. Call 
Schreckling on » 010 41 21 921 17 
19 evenings only. 

Modem OS Robotics dual standard 
HST, get into the world of comms 
£220. Call Mitchell on 
(0708)448357. 

Amiga 1200 6 Mb, 80 Meg hard disk, 
10845 monitor external disk drive 
DPaint 4, Pagesetter 3, Techno Sound 
Turbo, also games £600. Call Karen 
on " (0482) 668528, 
A4000/030 4 Mb 250Mb HD 8833 
monitor star LC200 printer extra 
floppy Opus 4 Wordworth DPIV games 
PD magazines all boxed £1000 Call 
Stafford daytime » (0733) 866224, 
eveings ■" (0733) 234135. 
Mlc robotics VXL-30 40Mhz 
accelerator board for A500, £300 
o.n.o, and VXL-32 32 bit 8Mb fast 
ram board for VXL-30.£30 on.o. Mr 
Br van 

n (0304) 364584. 
GVP Impact 2 52 Meg hard disk 
£165 2xlMeg SIMMs £55 Kickstart 
2 complete upgrade £65, 
Mastersound sampler £22. All items 
ere In very good condition and work! 
Call Ben Lamb n- (0502) 564306. 
A1200 40 mb HD, Star colour 
printer, Philips monitor, Power 
scanner, software incl. Pagestream 
2.2 D Paint AGA, 150 mags, leads, 
manuals £995 buyer collects. Call 
Arthur Cnr.e alter 6pm = (0?58) 
837379. 

Golden Gate 386SX 25 Mhz bridge 
board with 4 Mb extra ram co-pro 
floppy disk controller chips 
SoundBlaster pro card suga card 3.5 H 
40Mb HD + cables including software 
£500 o.n.o. Call Mr Bowles 

• (0403) 242102. 

Amiga 1200 80Mb herd drive VGA 
monitor 8Mb fast ram external drive 
VIDI 12 digitizer clarity 16 sound 
sampler magazine Imagine 3 scale IC 
Image master Image FX etc excellent 
condition £950. Call Paul 

* 071/733/7330. 

Imagine 2.9. many features of V3.0 
for just £40, includes addendum 
docs. Blitz basicZ, latest version, 
includes docs, + all user mags and 
discs, £30. Call Martin 

• (0298) 22862. 

Amiga A1200 mouse Joystick 200 
disks £299 colour stereo monitor 
£150. 4Meg 32 bit ram board 1204 
£150. Mags shopper/format £1.50 
each all issues £1.00 each. Call 
w 061/860/7368. 
Amiga 500+ 5Mb ram 200 Mb GUP 
HD citizen 24E printer wordworker 
procale DPaint W12.04 
home/accounts 2 quarterback AMOS 
pro all manuals many text books 
£590. Call John » 081/744/9482. 
Amiga 500 1Mb clock, mouse, 2 
joysticks 1.3 W.B., DPaint, many 
games, golf all manuals, hardly used, 
£135. Call Mike = (0258) 453101. 
Amiga Shopper complete set issue 
nol to issue no 38 £2.50 each incl 
postage or £50 complete set plus 
postage. Call " (0702) 556778 or 
write, 10 Marine Close, Leigh on Sea, 
SS9 2RD. 

Power computing 1204 expansion 
board with 4 meg memory, includes 
clock, onry £140. Call Stephen 

* (062B) 605492. 

Amiga A500 1Mb tarn WB 1.3 action 

replay II original software manuals 10 

games very little used joystick £150. 

Call Mick (0256) 702546. 

Power scam pro v2.0 plus software 

£50, Amitek 4Mb card for PCMCIA 

£96, Pagesetter III £20 Dig! Paint 

£10. Call Steve after 5.30pm (0388) 

605767. 

Amiga Shopper 1-28 Amiga Format 

1-41 (+4 binders) Amiga Computing 1- 

53 (with binders) AUI most Issues 

from issue one to Feb 1993 (cover 

discs where applicable) 0ffers7 Call 

■ (0934) 833122. 

4x1 Meg SIMMS for Amiga 4000. 

£25 each. Tel 0257 482266 

Wanted Imagine 2 with manual, 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



48 READER ADS 




THANK GOD CHRISTMAS IS OVER! 



So you got what you wanted? 
Everything? Are you sure? Waht 
about all of that Amiga stuff you 
wanted? Did your Granny buy you 
a new hard drive? Dod your mum 
get you that hand scanner you 
asked for? 

I thought not. Well, don't 
despair. You won't have to wait 
until next year. The 'Market 
Place' (page 44) is the section of 
the magazine where some of the 



best Amiga dealers and PD 
houses advertise their products 
and services. 

If you are looking for any new 
Amiga stuff, don't forget to check 
out the advertisers in our Market 
Place feature on page 44 & 45. 
You'll find It packed to the gills 
with all manner of groovy Amiga 
stuff for sale, including the best 
and latest PD and Shareware. 

Don't miss it! 



GENLOCK brand new, unsu$ed, still in 
sealed box, bargain at £220, Call 
Mike on 081 593 5843 (Barking) 
Evenings/weekends . 



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Understanding Imagine 2 book or 
manual for AF53 coverdisk Imagine 2 
23 Crouch park, pooles, humbridge, 
essex, SS5 6PX. Cash Waiting. 
A120C, 170 MbHP 030-28Mfc, 4Mb 
FAST, 33 MIk FPU, Zappo CD-ram, 
Microvitec 1438 monitor. Brilliance 2. 
Vista, Vidi I2ET, Wordworth 3.1, 
BLITZ BASIC, IMAGINE 3, plus many 
games, all originals! Call Paul 0245 
467 423 with serious offers. 
AS90 20 MEG Hard disk excellent 
condition, boxed as new Including 2 
meg RAM £150 one. 4 Meg external 
HAM unit IVR old fit A500/+ £150 
ono. Phone Mldddlesborough 0642 
319991. 

IMAGINE 2.9 complete with manual 
£100, Phone 0272 624 297. 



Amiga upgrade, 0+orce 030 40Mhj 

accelerator card for 1500/2000. 
Supports 32 bit memory and SCSI II 
l/F. V Fast. £450. Tel: 0272 624 
297. 

Serious software - IMAGINE 3.0 
£125, X-CAD 3000 £75, complete 
with manuals. Tel: 0272 624 297 
Golden Gate 486 bridge board 4Mb 
extra RAM controller chips cables 
software £200. VIDID card and 
change over switch £150. Ring 
anytime. Call Edmund, 0977 611 
466. 

A1SOO 4Mb RAM 52Mb HDD G 
Force 030 WB3 £600. Toshiba CD 
Rom £100, Emplant Mac Emulator 
£175. 1084 monitor £100. All for 
£750. Call 0732 884 259. 



Amiga 1200 SOMhz, Hard Olive 
£220.00. Also Amiga 600 60 Meg 
Hard Drive £180.00. Also Philips 
monitor £80.00 also spare drives (2) 
£15.00 each. Phone 081 568 6052. 
GVP A530 Series II Turbo hard Drive 
for Amiga 500, 120Mb hardiive with 
40Mhz accelerator 8 meg fast Ram 
fitted. As new and boxed £300. Call 
Steve Owen on 0204 657762 (North 
West). 

A2O0O K Start 3.1 S Meg RAM 2 
Meg Chip Toshiba CD-Rom Seagate 
39 Meg HDrive. Bridgeboard Twin 3.5 
in Drives Complete with Electrocraft 
Genlock Video Titling Painting Editing 
Software and all 'manuals £500,00. 
Tel: 0903 744710, 
GCP G-Lock SVHS/ COMPOSITE 



Astronomy diskzlne needs 

pictures/articles, free diskzone for 
contributions used, Serid with S.A.E. 
to Wolfpack, 7D Ferrier Cresent, 
Woodside, Aberdeen, AB2 2QL 

game design and animation needed 
by established programmer. Must be 
up to commercial standard and willing 
to work 110% . Contract is available 
call (0370) 356185. 

Willowsrde, holly Road, uttoxeter, 
Staffs, ST14 7NA. Also looking for 
musician. Write to above address if 
interested. 



Flicket Fixer for A1SO0 or A200. 

Microway of ICDetc. Reasonable 

price paid, contact Mick, 27 John 

dare Court, Kettering, Northants, 

NN16 9UJ. Mo 

Accelerator or hard card for Amiga 

1500/200. Extra memory also. 

Must be perfect fair price please, 

0272 620 176. 

Is thee anyone who can transfer my 

spectrum disks onto my Amiga 3,6 

4Mb GVP Sirnm-32 tor AS30 or 

A1230. Will pay £105. Call 0292 

570373. 

Complete L C' package for Amiga 

1200 must be a full package which 
includes etc. Anything considered but 
limited funds ■ Phone darren on 0440 
61925. 

A40O0 030 10Mb 120 HD FPU 
1084s monitor opalvision HCB+ SCSI 
card Olivetti JP150 printer. Pic £5 of 
other stuff. Includes graphics 
s/waste accounts, books, mags, etc. 
Call Oily (0532) 787 520 £2000. 
SCSI/I/Fj w/uty for A10OO ami ST. 
Sell or swap for useful X6SOX0. 
Seisel Yamaguchi, 1-768 Shirotsuehl, 
Togo-cho, Aichi-ken 47 — 01 JAPAN, 
PS programmers and gamers circle 
please join me. 

32bft memory expansion board 
wanted for CSA mega-midget racer. 
Must be 2 megs or more, phone 
0181 813 6280. 

Wanted any amateur radio software 
especially morse 'tutor. That will run 
on 50O+. also required for pensioner, 
miracle piano as cheaply as possible, 
phone 0244 831553 evenings or 

Flickei fixer for A1SOO or A2000. 
Microway or ICD etc. Reasonable 



price paid. Contact Mick 27 John 
Clare Court, Kettering, Northants, 
NN16 9NJ. Money waiting. 
Flicker Fixer wanted for A2000 will 
pay reasonable price for good 
condition, contact Mick 27 John 
Clare Clourt, Brambelside, ketterlng, 
Northants, NN16 9UJ. 
DHS 2632 with or without RAM For 
Commodore 2630 will pay fair price. 
Telephone (0443) 776615. 
Wanted A4000/30 must come with 
hard disk exchange for 486/25 P.C. 
with 170MB HD, 4MB, Sound Blaster, 
Tape Streamer, CD-ROM. Games. Call 
Steve on 091/536/6869. 
Amiga owners required to Join a 
group for mutual benefits new users 
welcome- Interested, curious or not 
sure phone Malcolm (0332) 757202 
to find out more. 

Looking for Amiga Format issue S3, 
complete with "Imagine" disk. Please 
state price including p.p. Contact N. 
Rowe, 13 Fatherless Barn Crescent, 
Halesowen, West Midlands B63 2ET. 
Imagine 3 users wanted worldwide, 
I'm also rooking for computerarnims 
on videos. Write to: Michael Skinner, 
Bonhoeffestr 11, 07747 Jena, 
Germany. 

Editor for Amiga Shopper magazine. 
Must be obedient, flexible and like 
coverdisks. Call Steve on 01225 
442244. 

Wanted : Good home for Ex-Amiga 
Shopper Editor. Housetrained, likes 
pets. Capable of carrying out basic 
tasks (with assistance). Answers to 
the name of "Richard" orBaggers", 



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best. 24hours 16.8K HST D/S, 8NI 
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Creepys BBS call 09V3S6/9177, 
loads if Amiga files and message 
areas, helpful sysop. Online 10pm - 
7am all week. Call Now! 
Amiga Phantom 8f?S:- 
(033?) 673073 online 7pm-7am Mon- 
Fri 12 noon- 7am weekends 15:1 
rated hundreds of flies on line and a 
friendly sysop worth a call at least. 
Ethos BBS 24 hours no ratio s 
"it's a way of life", (0924) 437258, 
Pics, anlms, art, fidonet, amiganet 
and catnet (soon) linked - ring now 
(0924) 437258. 
The ethereal cereal BBS. 
Herts based board, gigs of files CD- 
ROMS, up to 14400 bps. Barnet Hub 
(0707) 275567, 24 hours a day, 
seven days a weekl 
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CONTENTS 




AT-A-GLANCE 


A1200 expansions 


50 


CD32 


50 


CMD 


50 


Colour maps 


51 


Compugraphic fonts 


54 


Filter maps 


51 


Fontmanager 


54 


Freelance Videography54 


GVP Accelerators 


50 


Imagine 3.0 


51 


Microvitec 1438 


51 


MPEG 


50 


PC printing 


50 


Postscript fonts 


54 


ProPage 4,1 


54 


Son of Spong! 


51 


Transparent Spheres 


51 


I Zappo drives 


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What is Amiga 
Answers? 

Do you have a problem 
with your Amiga? Is 
something on your 
Amiga not working the 
way it should? In this 
section of Amiga 
Shopper we answer 
questions posed by 
you, our readers. All 
you need to do is to fill 
out the form on page 
48 and we'll set our 
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



50 AMIGA ANSWERS 




PROBLEM! 




Graeme knows it alt... nearly! 



ello and welcome once again, to the area of 
Amiga Shopper where you can turn to find all the 
answers to questions concerning your Amiga. It's 
my privilege, as Amiga Shopper's technical writer, to 
make sure that not one of your problems is left unsolved. 
Don't worry, we can help - no matter how simple or 
complex they may be. At Amiga Shopper we want you to 
get the very best out of your Amiga. That's why we 
devote more space than any other magazine to this 
Indispensable service, so please make the most of It and 
keep your questions coming in. We'll do my very best to 
find a solution to ail your problems. 

Don't worry if you come across any unfamiliar terms, 
just turn to one of our jargon-busting boxes to receive an 



explanation. The problems are put in a wide context for 
everybody's benefit. The index on the previous page is your 
guide to the topics covered this month. 

By now, you are probably familiar with our team of 
Amiga experts. Mark S middy knows all there is to know 
about AmigaDOS and floppy drives. Jeff Walker is our 
desktop publishing, fonts and printer correspondent, Gary 
White ley, is a trusted expert on video applications and 
graphics. If you have a query about comms, we'll set our 
communications guru Dave Winder on the case. Toby 
Simpson is our code clinician, if you've got problems with 
anything from C to assembler, try taxing his little grey cells. 
Finally, we've got a man you can rely on when it comes to 
operating systems programming - Paul Overaa. 




PRINT TO PC 

My decision to upgrade to 
Wordworth 3 depends on your reply. 

I want to be able to use pictures and 
Compugraphic fonts in a document. 
While this is no problem, printing out 
on my dot-matrix printer gives poor quality and 
wears the printer ribbon out. I have access to a 
laser printer at college on a network of PCs. 

Is there a way of transferring the document 
exactly as prepared in Wordworth to the PC 
which I can then print on the laser? 

Thomas Clifford 
University of Greenwich 
Very simple. In the Wordworth Print Setup 
requester select a printer driver that is compatible 
with the college's laser printer, which will probably 
be HP_LaserJet but you'll have to check. Then 
double-click the Workbench CMD command, which 
you'll find in your Tools drawer, and print your 
document. This will write a file to RAM: named 
CMD_File. It contains all the necessary printer 
codes to image the document on the printer and is 
totally platform independent. 

Copy this file from RAM: on to a MS-DOS 
formatted disk. If the file is too large to fit on a 
disk then you will have to print the document in 
pages and copy the files to several disks. Check 
out page 10-14 of your Workbench manual for full 
instructions on how to use CMD, and Chapter 7 for 
instructions on using CrossDos to prepare MS- 
DOS formatted disks. (You didn't say, but as you 
are interested in Wordworth 3 I am assuming you 
are using Workbench 3.) 

Take the files to college and send them 
directly to the laser printer via the PC's parallel 
port. Keep in mind that you don't want to print the 
file on the PC in the normal way, it must be sent 
directly to the printer via the parallel port, 
bypassing any PC printer drivers. Jeff 

TELL ME MORE 

I currently own an Amiga 1200 with 
2+SMb RAM, 120Mb IDE drive and a 
GVP 50MHz '030/882 accelerator. I 
am mainly interested in 3D 
animations so I have some relevant 

questions for you to answer which have been 

niggling me for some time. 

1. if you set up a CD 32 with an SX-1 module, 

8Mb RAM, large IDE drive, FMV cartridge, 

keyboard, mouse, disk drive etc would It be 




possible to generate hundreds of frames of 
animation in, say, Lightwave or imagine in 24-bit 
hires lace overscan PAL and then convert all the 
frames to one MPEG file, spool that file off the 
hard disk through the FMV cartridge and watch 
the animation in all its glory at full frame rate? 
Would It also be possible to record It In S-Vldeo 
from the outputs on the CD 32 ? 

2. Can you recommend a good value for 
money 24-bit graphics card? I am mainly 
interested in either the Picasso II or the EGS 
Spectrum because of their cost and apparent 
compatibility with Workbench applications. Could 
you please shed some light on the capabilities of 
these types of card? For Instance the EGS 
Spectrum claims to be able to move 80 million 
pixels per second In 8-bit. Does this mean that It 
will move approximately 25 million pixels per 
second In 24-bit? If so, is it possible to actually 
show animations through these cards or is it 
solely to do with faster screen update? I am 
pretty much In the dark as far as 24-bit cards go, 
never having seen one in action, but I am 
convinced that they must do more than display 
24-bit pictures to justify their cost, especially 
when I see that a 24-bit graphics card for the PC 
can be as cheap as £60. 

3. Do you know If anyone Is planning a 
Bodega Bay / A1500-type expansion kit for the 
A1200? If so, could you tell me If the slots would 
be 32-blt wide Zorro III and perform as an A4000 
do? 

I would greatly appreciate as much 
information as you can give me on the above 
subjects as I am tired of being limited to a 
certain size of animation on my A1200. Anything 
over 320 x 256 In HAMS and it starts to 
struggle! 

Robert Atkinson 
Dewsbury, W.Yorks 
Curious chap aren't you, Robert? I'll do what I can 
to help, though I think that most of your questions 
come as a result of expecting to get more out of 
your A1200 than it could reasonably be expected 
to provide. Every machine has its limits, and it 
looks like your Amiga has reached them. 

i'll answer your third question first, as the 
answer to your second question depends on 
whether such an expansion box exists or not, 
since there are no 24-bit cards which will ft 
directly into an A1200, all requiring either a Zorro 
slot or video slot to operate - hence your need for 



big box specification from your small box Amiga. 

There is, apparently, a company in Germany 
which makes tower-style expansion cases for the 
A1200 (and all other Ami gas except the A1000) 
but its slots are Zil, not Zlll. It seems that the 
case contains four Zll slots and two 16-bit PC ISA 
slots (though these overlap the Zll slots so it's 
one or the other if you've got PC-stuff to add as 
well), but no video slot. I've heard that the cost is 
around £320, by the way. 

More details from: 
Manfred Kotulla, 
Mlcronik Computer Service, 
Bruckenstrade, 
51379 Leverkusan, Germany. 
« 010-49-2171-28-386/387/388 
Fax: 010-49-2171-28-389 
(Thanks to shiuk@cix for making these details 
public). 

Which moves us on nicely to your second 
question, regarding 24-bit cards. In this case ones 
which will fit into Zorro II slots, as both your 
chosen options (EGS Spectrum and Picasso II) 
certainly do. Both cards will allow most programs 
to be displayed on a 256 colour workbench-style 
screen at higher resolutions than a standard 
Amiga RGB video output can produce, but to reap 
the full benefit of these potentially pin-sharp 
images you'll need to employ the services of a 
multisync monitor. 

However, you'll still be able to display all your 
programs (and images, including 24-bit files) on a 
standard RGB monitor, though you won't get the 
benefits of the flickerless higher sync rates. 

As for animation playback, sure these cards 
can employ software to enable this, but don't get 
your hopes up that you'll have an instant 
broadcast TV box if you fit a 24-bit card to your 
Amiga, no matter what pixel-shifting speeds the 
cards claim per second. Just stop to think a 
moment. A 768 x 576 pixel 24-bit image (that's 
full PAL overscan) contains 442368 pixels. 

Twenty-five of these images make up one 
second of PAL animation, so that's over 11 million 
pixels per second that have to be shifted. OK, so 
the card might be able to handle it, but can your 
Amiga hardware load image data at such a high 
rate - which will probably be 15-25Mb (or more) 
per second? Of course not. So there has to be a 
compromise - and that's to either reduce the 
amount of colours or to reduce the size of the 
animated image. 



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Here's the Colour Map image... 

To give you an example - I have an OpalVision 
card in my 40MHz '030 Amiga 2000, along with 
360Mb of SCSI hard drives and 12Mb of memory. 
OpalVision has an excellent 24-bit animation 
compiler, but it is limited to I o-res overscan 
maximum and for good reason. The OpalVision just 
cannot shift data fast enough, even from RAM, to 
provide real-time playback of anything even 
approaching this size. So I usually do 160 x 128 
tests and then record the full images to PAR or 
video tape. I suspect the same is probably true of 
other cards. 

Unlike cheap PC cards, Amiga 24-bit cards 
allow direct access for painting or other graphics 
functions. The bottom-end PC cards are for display 
only, meaning that you can't directly see what 
you're painting at it's full quality, rather like doing 
a 24-bit background with Art Department and 
only being able to display it in 16 colours on a 
WB2 Amiga. 

In any case, either of your chosen 24-bit cards 
would be fine, provided that you had somewhere 
to plug them into, of course, though I've seen 
more positive feedback on the Picasso than I have 
on the Spectrum. 



And here's the corresponding Filter Map Image... 

And finally, to your first question. In theory 
what you propose should be possible, though you 
won't need the 8Mb of RAM as the FMV module 
will run quite happily with a standard CD 32 . You 
will, however, need a way to MPEG encode the 
huge amount of data you are proposing to 
generate, and a place to store the data before you 
encode it - like a hu mo ngou sly-large (let's say 
several Gb) hard drive. 

Currently the only seriously worthwhile 
Amiga hardware method for MPEGing is via the 
Peggy card, though there are several PC MPEG 
coders available. You'll also need to have plenty 
of patience whilst the MPEG file is crunched and 
saved! Gary 

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER! 

Using either Imagine 2.0 or Imagine 
2.9 I cannot seem to achieve a fully 
transparent sphere. If I render a 
white sphere against a blue 
background and set the 
sphere's colour filter settings to full value 
(255,255,255) I cannot see the background 
through the sphere. In practice I can see Into 





Put 'em on your sphere, render, and Hey Presto - 
a see-through pattern! 

the sphere but not out of It. 

What I'm really trying to do is to make a 
rotating globe somewhat reminiscent of the old 
BBC1 world, but substituting clouds for the land 
masses. However, I can't seem to get it working 
at all right. Can you help? 

Michael Harvey 
South wold, Suffolk 
What you need to do here is use a Filter map as 
well as a Colour map on the surface of your 
sphere. Setting the colour filter only makes the 
sphere itself transparent - it doesn't affect how a 
mapped image fitters light. 

I've provided three example images to give you 
a better idea. The first is just to demonstrate how 
the mapping works (in your case it would be your 
clouds image). Only the coloured areas will remain 
visible on the surface of the sphere, made 
possible by using a modified version of this image 
as a filter map. 

I used Deluxe Paint to make the images, first 
the colour map version (in 16 colour 640 x 512) 
and then, by reducing the palette to two colours, i 
made all the parts I wanted to be transparent full 
white and the rest solid black. This two colour 



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questions of a real bunch of 
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Shopper. Here's a selection of a few 
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which have popped up on the 
bulletin board: 

Can anyone help me? I need to 
know whether the new Zappo drive 
from ZCL works with the Viper 
accelerator from Power, various 
people have told me various things 
and 1 am getting very confused. Any 
kind of response would be a bonus. 
Mark Gash 

I am thinking of purchasing a 
Zappo (Overdrive) CD Rom but 
want to know If there are any 
compatibility problems with the 
above Blizzard board (I've got 4 
Megs of Fast RAM). I've heard of 
some other boards having problems 
with CD ROM drives, but I think it's 
only the ones based around the 
68020 processor and the problem 
lies with the memory addressing 
and the way the Amiga auto 



configures Itself. 
Am I right? 

Am t talking nonsense? 
Answers on a postcard please... 
Kevin Morgan 

For loading and playing games on 
the Zappo Drive fast memory needs 
to be switched off and the software 
included with the drive allows you 
to do this on boot up so the drive 
should work with no problems, 

Stewart McCullouch 

I have a Blizzard 40MHz '030 + FPU 
and Archos CD-ROM drive (the 
same as 

Zappo) and I can vouch for the fact 
that they work together. 

However, my CD-ROM drive has 
broken a wire where the lead 
connects to the PCMCIA 
card and I am having to return it to 
the dealer ;( 

Derek Sharp 

I want to add a hard drive via the 
SCSI interface on my A590 which 
as far as I know is a SCSI-1 
Interface. Can this Interface 
support anyone other than a SCSI-1 
device? So far advice from dealers 



and echomall has been conflicting, 
ranging from NO to YES, with 
maybe In between! I would like to 
use a SCSI-2 disk so that I can use 
It when I upgrade my Amiga from 
and A500. 

Stuart Munro 

I have an A590 and can vouch for 
the fact that it will work with SCSI 
drives. I also believe It wilt work 
with SCSI 2, simply Ignoring the 
extra features/speed. 

Derek Sharp 

Well I've got my answer about the 
Blizzard board & a CD Rom drive, I 
think I'll push my luck and ask 
another... 

I'm looking to buy the above 
monitor (or something similar) coz 
I've only got a Commodore 1084S 
and I want the extra screen modes. 
However I've heard a few people 
mention that you can get horizontal 
banding of the picture when using 
certain screen modes with the 
Mlcrovitec. 

Is this true? If so, which 
monitor could you recommend? 

What is the Mlcrovitec like? (I 
know it's 



had good reviews, but what do the 

owners 

think of It?) 

Kevin Morgan 

I've had mine for a couple of 
months and have had no probs. The 
picture Is crisp and clear. You could 
do much worse. 

Andy Small 

Weil, I've got the 1440, but yours 
should be similar. I find the screen 
quality to be very good, although 
the DBLPAL mode is a bit of a 
strain on the eyes (that's why I use 
muitiscanl). Workbench has to be 
seen in 800x600 before you can 
say it looks nowhere near as good 
as Windoze. I think It's a great 
monitor, and would definitely advise 
you to buy one (and I've got no 
problems with banding!) 

Ignacy Sawlcki 
The Amiga Shopper section of the 
Metnet Bulletin board can be 
contacted by modem on 01482 
473871/01482 442251. 

Alternatively, you can E-Mail your 
queries to 2:2502/129.1 (Fidonet} 
or Answers@Amshop.demon.co.uk 
(Internet). 



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image will be the Filter map. 

Back in Imagine, load your sphere and first 
add the full colour image as a colour brush map, 
wrapped on both the X and Z axes. Then add the 
second image, again as an X and Z wrapped 
brush map, but this time make sure that the Filter 
box is checked. 

Save the object, set up your scene in the 
Stage and Action Editors (I've added a graduated 
background for effect) and render at the size of 
your choice. And you should get results similar to 
those you can see here - at least in terms of 
transparency. Gary 



EXPANDED HORIZONS 

In 1992 I purchased an Amiga 2000 

whilst at Liverpool University through 

a student loan scheme on the advice 

of a lecturer who recommended the 

computer for my main subject of 

Marketing, 

However, since purchasing the Amiga 1 have 
had many problems both in finding local Amiga 
dealers and In gaining information regarding the 
Amiga itself. I have written to various companies 
but have received no replies. 

Since graduating last May I have been 
offered a freelance job with a local company. This 
would entail me working with videos/photos of 
Individual musicians and bands and designing 
posters, leaflets etc for promotional purposes. 

The only software I have (In addition to the 
Amiga DOS 1.3 system software which came with 
the Amiga) Is Kind words 3, which I cannot usel 
My Amiga Is only a 1Mb machine and I've hardly 
used it since buying it as my marketing option 
was terminated soon after I started it! 

I basically need some advice of what I need 
to buy to get my Amiga working to its full 
potential instead of just gathering dust as It has 
been for the last two years. 

Could you also tell me how 1 go about 
subscribing to Amiga Shopper. 

Simon Connor 
Bootle, Mersey side 
I hope you're sitting comfortably, Simon, because 
you might be rather shocked when you work out 
the cost of all the things you're going to need to 
get your Amiga dream off the ground! in fact, once 
you've read what I have to say you might be better 
off considering buying another computer altogether 
because in the long run it may well suit you better, 
but here goes anyway.... 

Since you mention both videos and photos 
then the first thing you're going to need is a way of 
capturing and converting images from either of 
these sources into a form which can be used by 
your computer. To capture photos the best choice 
is a flat-bed scanner, such as those produced by 
Epson or Sharp. Typically, a good scanner will cost 
more than £500, and you'll also need to add more 
for software capable of driving the scanner. 

To grab video images you'll need a real-time 
video digitiser or framegrabber, such as Rombo's 
Vidi-Amiga 24RT or MacroSystem's VLab card. 
You'll also need a video source suitable for playing 
back the band's videotapes. 

To handle such images your Amiga is going to 
require both increased disk capacity and memory, 
so you'll need a large(ish) hard drive, hard drive 
controller card and plenty of memory (at least 8Mb 
would be best). Also, an accelerated Amiga would 
speed up many of the production processes 



enormously. Fortunately it is possible to combine a 



SCSI hard drive controller, memory and accelerator 
all into one card, but expect to pay £700 or more 
for the privilege. 

To transfer high quality images from your 
Amiga to a print bureau you'll probably need a PC- 
compatible high-density disk drive, such as those 
supplied by Power Computing. This will enable the 
bureau to load and print images you've prepared 
on your Amiga from their Macs or PCs. I'd also 
recommend that you upgrade your Workbench and 
Kickstart to version 3 (cost around £90). 

To complete the hardware side you should 
have an RGB monitor to provide a good quality 
display. A 24-bit display card (such as Picasso, 
Opalvision or Retina) would also help, but isn't an 
absolute necessity unless you plan on doing a lot 
of fiddly image compositing. 

So how about the software? The first thing 
you'll need is an image processing program like 
ImageFX or Art Department which will allow you to 
load your grabbed or scanned images and crop, 
scale and convert them into something suited to 
your needs, as well as output them to disk in a 
format suitable for a print bureau to use. Both 
Image FX and ADPro can be used to add text to an 
image, though you'll need to supply the fonts 
yourself. For laying out text or manipulating images 
by hand you could use a paint program such as 
Brilliance (though ImageFX also includes a range of 
paint tools) but for heavy-duty paint work at the 
highest quality then only a 24-bit display and paint 
program like TVPaint OpalPaint or Photogenics will 
do the business. I guess we've spent over a 
couple of thousand pounds already! 

You'll probably also require a desktop 
publishing program, so that you can combine your 
text and images together more stylishly. 
Unfortunately, whilst there are several suitable 
programs for the Amiga, there's not much progress 
going on with them except for Soft Logik's 
PageStream3 software. Older programs like Gold 
Disk's Professional Page will get the job done, but 
Gold Disk are no longer supporting the Amiga, so 
don't expect any help when things go wrong. 

If you are to be producing promotional materiai 
then we should assume that it has to be top-class, 
glossy quality. A simple dot-matrix printout isn't 
going to impress potential audiences and clients 
much, unless such a design is actually suitable for 
the job in hand. 

Therefore, as far as quality printing goes, you 
may well be better off getting your materials 
printed out professionally. Most of your local copy 
shops (for example KallKwik or Jiffy Print) will be 
able to supply quotes for this, though it may take 
a bit of persuasion for you to supply elements of 
your artwork on PC disks for them. 

You'll have to enquire as to the image formats 
they'll require for compatibility with their equipment. 
For proofing a good inkjet printer (such as a Canon 
BJ or Hewlett Packard Deskjet) or a laser printer 
will do the job, and you'll even be able to use 
some of the printed output directly, though prints 
from grabs and scans aren't usually very 
successful with such printers, particularly lasers. 

To be honest it might be an idea to consider 
having a look at PCs and Macs as well. Don't 
expect to save much money though - PC and Mac 
hardware might come in cheaper than an 
equivalent Amiga but some of the software is far 
more expensive. In the end it's swings and 
roundabouts, but if it's DTP you want, and you're 
not too worried about whether it's on an Amiga or 
not, I'd take a look at the other machines too, and 
then make your choice. I wish you the best of luck 




as a freelance, but don't expect for a minute that 
it will be easy! 

You can subscribe to Amiga Shopper by writing 
to the subscriptions dept at Amiga Shopper 
subscriptions. Future Publishing, FREEPOST, 
Somerton, Somerset TA11 6BR or calling them on 
0225 822511. A year's subscription costs £30. 
Gary 



PROPAGE POSERS 

I have a few questions regarding 
ProPage 4.1, ProSpool and 
Compugraphlc fonts. Firstly, even 
though I have an 030 accelerator 
fitted to my A500 (running Kickstart 
2.04 and Workbench 2.1), each page takes about 
seven minutes to print on my Canon 8JC-600 
using the best quality print setting from ProPage. 
Why, and how can I speed It up? 

I recently upgraded from ProPage 2 to 4.1. 1 
only got a manual for ProPage 2, with a version 4 
supplement manual. Is this correct? I read In this 
update manual that I should be able to redirect 
printing to a file, which ProSpool should print. I 
cannot find a requester in the file print section to 
redirect output to a file. How do I do this? Will It 
be any quicker? 

I have a CD-ROM full of Compugraphlc fonts. 
To make them work with ProPage I have to 
manually change the filename extensions from 
fontname.DAT to fbntname.dat, fontname.LIB to 
font name. Mb, and so on. Can you help me with a 
script to do this automatically? 

What Is the difference between Workbench 
Compugraphlc fonts and the fonts used by 
ProPage? Can you make each type work with 
each program? 

How does the FontManager program work? 
Can i get it to change all my Compugraphic files 
to the 030 version, or Is It only for Adobe fonts? 

Finally, how can I get ProPage to recognise a 
separate directory for decorative fonts, small 
fonts and large fonts? It really Is a pain waiting 
for it to read a directory of 100 fonts. 

R T Butter 
St Lawrence, Jersey 
Seven minutes for an A4 colour print-out at top 
resolution is about par for the course for a 68030 
CPU. The only way to make it happen significantly 
faster is to throw a more powerful CPU at the 
problem. This has got stuff all to do with the 
Amiga or ProPage, it is simply how long it takes to 
print graphics on this type of printer. 

First, four strips of the 360 dpi page must be 
created in memory (one strip each for the cyan, 
magenta, yellow and black colours), then that data 
must be sent to the printer down the parallel port 
eight bits at a time, then the printer has to print it. 
Then the next strip is imaged and sent to the 
printer, then the next strip.... and so on until the 
page is completely printed. What takes the most 
time is the initial imaging of each strip in memory, 
and how quickly this happens is dictated by the 
speed of the CPU. 

ProSpool is for use with PostScript printers 
only, if you want to spool your preferences printer 
output you can use the CMD command and then 
Copy the resulting file to the PAR: device (not 
PRT:). See page 10-15 of your Workbench 2.1 
manual for simple instructions on how to use 
CMD. Alternatively, if you want a fancy user 
interface for this job, get hold of the excellent 
PrintManager 2 shareware program. Any PD library 
should be able to help you there. Printing in this 



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way will not speed up printouts by very much 
(perhaps a few seconds), but it does produce 
better printouts, particularly on inkjet (bubble jet, 
DeskJet) printers. 

Your renaming problem can also be solved by 
a PD program. The standard Amiga Dos Rename 
command doesn't allow wildcards, so a chap 
called Marc Mendez wrote a program called Aren 
that does. I downloaded it from Ami net 
(util/cli/Aren.iha) but any decent PD library should 
again be able to help you if you don't have access 
to Internet. With Aren in your C: directory, this 
would be the script to execute: 

Cd CGFontB: 

aren DAT dat #?D»T 

aren LIB lib #?LIB 

aren METRIC metric #?METRIC 

However, having provided that solution, I'm rather 
puzzled by what you want to do because Prop age 
doesn't care whether the font filename extensions 
are in upper case, lower case or in a mixture of 
cases. Perhaps you are just assuming they need 
to be in lower case because the others already 
are? Or perhaps you just want to be neat? Anyway, 
whatever the reason, Aren is the simple solution. 

The Workbench Corn pugrap hie font system is a 
little limited for professional desktop publishing 
use, so some programs employ their own, 
separate systems for dealing with Com pugrap hie 
fonts. The fonts themselves are exactly the same, 



it is the way the programs handle them that is 
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and spacing, which are not important to most 
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ProPage's FontManager is used solely for 
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FontManager you simply select the Type 1 
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you did, can you see that it would still have 
to read your 100 fonts, except they'd be in 
different directories? 

The way I work is by having a storage directory 
of fonts, inside which all my fonts are sorted into 
different categories in different directories. Before 
running ProPage I decide which fonts I am going to 
use, then I copy those into CGFonts: (joining the 
small bunch of fonts I use regularly), run the 
CG_Update program to update the fonts list, then 
run ProPage and get on with my work. 

When I've finished with the new fonts 1 delete 
them from CGFonts: and run CG_Update again. 
Remember that these fonts will always have to be 
in CGFonts: (and the fonts list updated) whenever 
the document that uses them is loaded. I always 
attach a Post- It note to the first page of my 
documents listing all the fonts used in that 
document. Then I check the list in the 
Type/Typeface submenu - if any fonts on my Post- 
It note are missing from that list I know that I have 
forgotten to copy them into CGFonts: and/or run 
CG_Update to update the fonts list. 

By the way, if you never use bitmapped fonts, 
make sure your ProPage icon ToolType FONTS is 
set to just CG (FOIMTS=CG rather than 
FONTS=ALL). This will prevent ProPage trundling 
off to read your FONTS: directory, which can take 
some time if it contains many fonts. Jeff O 



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62 PROGRAMMING MASTERCLASS 




Learn how to write 
your own chess 
program in C or 
AMOS. Cliff Ramshaw 
introduces the first 
fully workings 



version. 



This is it - after following this month's 
Instalment you'll finally be able to piay a 
game of chess against your Amiga. There's 
only one more function that we need to 
Implement - everything else is already in place. 
That function is bestmoveQ, the most Important 
and also the trickiest of the program's functions. 
Let's get cracking.... 

If we wanted the computer to piay like an 
imbecile, then we could use the simple strategy of 
finding a move, making it, evaluating it and taking 
it back, for each legal move available to the 
computer in a given position. 

The moves could be found with calls to 
findmove() for each of the computer's pieces and 
each possible direction, and each move could be 
assigned a score by a call to evaluate() after it had 
been made. After each move had been tested we 
would then pick the one with the highest score. 

The problem here is that the computer can't 
see the consequences of the moves - it will simply 
take the most valuable piece in its path, without 
the intelligence to even maneuver itself into 
positions to do so or to avoid the most elementary 
sacrificial ploys on behalf of the human. 

It needs to be able to look ahead, to guess 
what the player's response to its move might be, 
to see how it would best respond to that, how the 
player would respond again, and so on. The further 
ahead it looks, the better it plays. 

The number of moves a chess program looks 
ahead is known as the number of ply. Strictly 
speaking, one ply corresponds to a half move - a 
move by either black or white. A full move consists 
of a play by white and response from black. 

Searching through these moves produces what 
is known as a 'tree'. Each of the moves available 
to the computer can be represented 
diagrammatically as branches emanating from a 
single route. Each move leaves the human with a 
number of possible responses, and these are 



represented as further branches spreading from 
the computer-move branches. The diagram extends 
for as many ply as are being searched. As you can 
see, the number of possibilities dramatically 
increases at every new level of ply. 

In theory, we could get a program to look 
ahead until the end of the game, evaluating every 
move and every consequence until checkmate or 
stalemate. It would be unbeatable. At current 
levels of computing power, the sun will have long 
shrunk to a white dwarf before a program can do 
this, so compromise is in order. 

On my humble A1200, I find 3-ply look ahead 
(that's one move for the computer, the player's 
response and the computer's response to that) 
plays at an acceptable speed. If you've got a 
68040-based machine, you can probably push it 
up to 5-ply. If you've got a 68000-based machine, 
you'll have to be patient, because the game isn't 
really worth playing below 3-ply. 

So how do we get the function to look ahead? 
If you've been observant, you'll have noticed that 
the findmove{) function operates on both black and 
white pieces. 

In other words, it can find legal moves for 
both the computer and the human player (we've 
already made use of this facility in the 
humanmovef) function). With findmoveO's help, 
the computer can make moves on behalf of the 
player as well as itself. 

The basic strategy, then, is to make each legal 
move in turn. Instead of evaluating this move, we 
look at the human's possible responses to it. This 
is searching at 2-ply. 

Instead of evaluating any of these responses, 
the computer again considers its own position and 
looks at the responses it can give to each of the 
player's responses. This is 3-ply. 

This process continues until the maximum 
ply, as specified by the player at the beginning 
of the game, is reached, at which point the board 




tnd evaluates it 
lerfel, int maxjily) 



C CODE LISTl 



/* best move creates each move 
struct move bestmove(int player 
{ 

struct move current; 

struct move bestsofar; 

struct move opponents; 



int x,y,maxdist, rotation, piece, taken; 

if ( level <maxply) C ,- 

/* recursive search */ k 

bestsofar. scores -99999; / , 

/ \ 
for (x=0;x<8;x++) \ 

for (y-0;y<8;y++) { 
/* work through each board position i 
piece aboard [x] [y] ; 
if (piece*player>0) { 

/* if piece belongs to current play 
for (rotation^ ;rotation<8j rotation-!^) 
t* try each direction */ 
current =f indmove [piece,x,y, rotation) ; 
maxd i s t = current . distance; 
if (maxdist>rj) { 
tor 
( current . distanca=l ; current . distance-: rfaaxflis.t ; current . distance++ ) 
/• work in this direction for as long as It is legal 
/* avoid checking a king moving two places to the left */ 
if ( (piece==6 II pieca„=-6) ft& rotation~6 is 
current .difltance^*2) / 

current * distance=nia*dlst ; 




taken-makemove ( current ) i I* make the current move V 
opponent s=beetmove( -player, level* l,maxply) ,- /* find «•* 
opponent's best response */ 

erasemovet current, taken),- /* take back move */ 

current . scores-opponents ♦ score? 

if ( current. score>bestsofar. score) { 

/* this move yields best score so far */ 
beatsofar=current; /* store move and its score */ 



else ( 

/* reached bottom of recursion +/ 

bestsofar . score=-99999 ; 
for (x=0;x<8;x++) 

for (y-0;y<8;y++) { 

/* work through each board position in turn */ 
piece*board[x] [y] ; 
if (piece*player>0) C 

/* if piece belongs to current player, move it */ 
for (rotation=0;rotation<8,-rotation++) { 

/* try each direction */ 

currents indmo ve (piece, x,y, rotation); 

maxdist=current .distance; 

if (maxdistjO) ( 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



PROGRAMMING MASTERCLASS 63 



is evaluated. 

At the start of the game, there are 20 moves 
open to the computer (eight pawns can move 
one or two squares, and each of the knights can 
move in one of two directions). None of these 
moves restricts the human's freedom of 
movement, so each of the computers moves has 
20 possible responses. 

So a 2-ply check at the beginning of the game 
involves looking at 400 moves. The number of 
possible moves goes down as pieces are taken, 
but increases as queens, bishops and rooks gain 
freedom of movement, since these have many 
possible directions and distances open to them. 
As a very rough approximation, you could say that 
the speed of the game slows down by a factor of 
20 for every extra ply searched. 

Because of its repetitive nature, the 
bestmoveQ algorithm lends itself to the technique 
of recursion. The same function that searches for 
a move can be used to find a response to that 
move, and so on. To do this, bestmove() needs 
a parameter indicating on whose side it is playing. 

Initially, this is 1, indicating the computer, but 
when it recursively calls itself this is multiplied by 
-1 to indicate that the function should search for 
the human's moves. Another recursive call results 
in the parameter being multiplied by -1 again, 
switching back to looking at moves available to 
the computer. 

Recursive functions break down into two 
segments: the recursive part and the base case 
(see box-out). The recursive part here is the bit 
that makes each legal move in turn and then calls 
itself to find the responses. 

Another of bestmoveQ's parameters is the 
integer variable level, which begins at 1 and is 
increased by 1 every time the function is called 
recursively. Once the value of level reaches the 
maximum ply (specified by the integer parameter 
maxply), then the base case comes into operation. 



The base case terminates the recursion and 
provides a means for the function to come back 
down to earth. Like its recursive counterpart, It 
makes each legal move for whichever side is 
specified by its player parameter. But instead of 
recursively calling itself once it has made the 
move, it calls evaluatef) to find a score. 

After it has checked all the possible moves at 
this level, it returns the one that yields the best 
score. In C this is done by returning a structure. In 
AMOS, which can't deal with structure types, the 
values of the BESTSOFAR array (equivalent to the 
bestsofar structure) are copied into the 
CURRENTMOVE array, which is globally available 
and can be seen by the calling program. 

The base case works just the same as if the 
computer were only looking one ply ahead, by 
simply choosing the move that gives it the most 
material gain. Nice and simple. Notice, though, 
that it can operate just as well on behalf of the 
human player (which will only occur if you specify 
an even number of ply). 

Let's return to the recursive case, and see 
how it deals with the score passed back to it. 
The first thing it does is to take back the move it 
has made. This is necessary because the board 
is global and we don't want it to be altered 
permanently until the computer has finally chosen 
a move. 

It then assigns a score to the move it is 
considering by multiplying the score returned to it 
by -1. It's easiest if you think of the thing in two- 
ply. Imagine that the computer has just made the 
first of its available moves. It has then recursively 
called bestmoveO which, now at the base case 
(!evel=2=maxply), picks the human's response 
that gives the best material advantage. The score 
of this is then returned to the recursive case 
(!evel=l). 

This is where the mini max algorithm gets its 
name. The computer doesn't want to pick the 




highest scoring move (since that is the-rffove tl at 
gives the opponent the best advantage), but ra fier" 
the lowest scoring one It picRVthe move that 

produces the weakest response from the 



opponent, even though the opponent is making the 
best response possible to that move. It is 
minimising the | Jayer's maiimflm response. 

This is done by muitiptyirjg the score of the 
best response I y -1, and asjjgning that score to 
the move currerty undefconsidefation. Once all 
the moves have I een < needed, the function then 
picks the one wtlrttTe - highest-score (the lowest 
score, so far as th\opponent is corrcerned), and 
returns that. 

As you can see, the function can be called 
recursively man; • times. At each level, except the 
top, it picks theWtove that provides the opponent 
with the poorest Opportunity to respond. The~m3ve— ■ 
that is finally returned to the calling function is the 
one that results in tfre^best material advantage for 
the computer in a given^mjmber of moves time. 
It's interesting to note thattte algorithm assumes 
that the human player is thinlflngtrte-aarne way 
ie, also employing the minimax\algorithrn 

If you look ciosely at this month's code you'll 
notice that the recursive part of the program is 
interested only in the score of the response to 
any of the moves it tries, not thellocations moved 
from or to or the type of piece mc ved. It's only 
when the recursion finishes and t 
is returned to the calling program 
are needed. 

Aside from the points mentioned above 
you should have no difficulty in fallowing 
bestmove()'s code. 

The code for the recursive ahd base cases is 
very similar. The structure bestsofar (array 
BESTSOFAR in AMOS} is used/to hold the details 
of the best move discovered io far. 

The currentmove structure (array 
CURRENTMOVE) holds Jprftrn the details of every 



ie best move 
that its details 



for 
(current. diet ance • 1 ; current .distance-: -maxdi s t ; cu r r en t . d i s t anc e + + 1 { 
/* work in this direction for as long as it is legal */ 
/* avoid checking a king moving two places to the left */ 
if ((piece==6 II piece==-6) && rotation^ it w 
current .distances^) 

current. distance =maxdi e t ; 



taken=makemove( current) ; f* make the current move */ 
current. a core = evaluate (player) ; f* get a score for thia 

eras amove (current, taken); /* take move back */ 

if (current ,score>bestsofar, score) { 

/* thie move yields best score so far */ 
beataof ar= current ; 



BESTSOFAR(S) =-99999 
For X=0 To 7 
For T=0 To 7 

' work through each boari 

PIEC3=B0ARD1X,Y) 
If PIBCB*SIDB>0 

' if piece belongs to 
Por ROTATIONS To 7 
' try each directi 
FTNDHOVB [PIECE, X,Y 
DIETMAX.CURREHTMOV: ! 
If DISTHUC>Q 



} 



ie legal 

places to the left 

DIST=x2 



return bestsofar; 



AMOS CODE 

' BESTMOVE creates each move in turn and evaluates it 

Procedure BESTMOVE [SIDE, LEVEL, PLYMAX] 

Shared CURRENTMOVE ( ) 
Dim TEMP(7) 
Dim BESTSOFAR (7) 
If LEVEL <PLYMAX 

' recursive search 




For DIST^l TO ql 

work in V$is direction for as loTiss^e^ it 
avoid checking for a king moving two 
If(PIEC*»6 or PIECE*- 6) and ROTATIONS aj 
DI9V-DISTMAX 

M0VE(4)=DIST 



End 

CO 

HMOaCWE 

' make the current move 

TAKENfcParam 

' temaorarily store parameters of move 

For I=B To 6 

TEMP ( I ) =CURIENTMO VE ( I ) 
Next I I 

BESTMOVBj -SIDE, LEVEL+ 1 , PLYKAX] 

' find opponent ' s best response 
' update EURRBNTMOVE to hold the move 
previously under consideration 

' but retainr^a the opponent's move's score 

SCORE =CURRENTMOv 
For 1=0 To 6 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY T995" 



64 PROGRAMMING MASTERCLASS 



< 



move checked by the function. When currentmove 
is assigned a score, this score is compared with 
that of bestsofar. If it is bigger, then bestsofar is 
given the values of currentmove, thereby 
remembering a new best move. 

When all the moves have been checked, 
bestsofar holds the details of the overall best. The 
structure called opponents (array TEMP in AMOS) 
is a temporary one used in the recursive case to 
hold the value returned by the recursive 1 call to 
bestmoveO- 

In both the recursive and base cases x and y 
loops are set up to search through every square 
on the board. A square is ignored unless the 
function finds a piece of the correct. It determines 
this by testing that the contents of the board 
square multiplied by the parameter player are 
greater than zero. 

If a piece has been found, then another loop is 
entered, this time cycling through the eight 
possible directions. Calls to findmoveO reveal how 
far, if at all, the piece can move in each of these 
directions. If the distance is greater than zero, 
then another loop is entered, this time counting 
between one and the maximum number of squares 
the piece can move along. Notice that the program 
avoids the special case of the king moving two 
squares to the left. This can occur if the king can 
castle to the left, when its maximum distance will 
be set to three. The nonsense value of two must 
be skipped when this happens. 

Otherwise, the move is made and the value of 
the piece taken by it, if any, is stored in the 
variable taken. In the recursive case, a call is 
then made to bestmoveO, with the result being 
placed in opponents (TEMP in AMOS). In the base 
case, the move is instead given a score by a call 
to evaluate. In both cases, the move is then taken 
back and its score compared to that of bestmove. 
If it is higher, bestmove is updated accordingly and 
the various loops close. Both cases end by 

\x 



WHAT IS RECURSION? 




t% y recursion 1 mean 
•* recursion. Recursion Is 


n is quite independent of any 


The factorial of 1 is 1, of 2 


variables called n outside of the 


is 2, of 3 is 6, of 4 is 24, and 


one of those techniques that 


function. Similarly, if that 


so on. 


often frightens unseasoned 


function calls itself, passing a 


Notice that the factorial of 


programmers. They assume It's 


different value for n, then the n 


a number bigger than 1 is the 


horribly complicated, whereas 


in the recursively called function 


same as that number multiplied 


In fact It's beautifully simple 


will be quite independent of the 


by the factorial of 1 less than 


and damn useful. 


n in the calling function, and 


that number, ie the factorial of 


Recursion, like the more 


will not modify it in any way. 


4 is the same as 4 times the 


familiar technique of iteration, 


Once the recursively called 


factorial of 3. 


Is a means of carrying out the 


function finishes, then control 


Here's how you would write 


same or a similar task many 


is returned to the calling 


a recursive function to do this 


times over. 


function, just after the line that 


in C: 


Often you can use a 


did the calling. 


int factorial (int n) 


straightforward iterative loop 


To prevent this resulting 


( 

IS (n==l) 


instead, but in some cases 


in an infinite loop, there needs 


return n; 


recursion provides the easiest 


to be a terminating condition 


at Be 


way to code a solution. If you 


that, when met, stops the 


return n*factorial(n- 
1); 
} 


don't believe me, try re-writing 


recursion and causes the 


this month's bestmoveO 


function to finish. With this in 


The if (rt==l) bit is checking for 


procedure without it. 


mind, it's easy to divide 


the base case. 


A recursive function is one 


recursive functions into two 


If it's true, then there's no 


that includes a function call to 


parts - the recursive case and 


need for a recursive call and we 


itself, which is the way that the 


the base case. 


return a value of 1 (the factorial 


repetition is generated. 


The classic example (and 


of 1 is 1). Otherwise, we're in 


It's possible for a function 


who am 1 to break with 


the recursive case. 


to do this without creating a 


tradition?) is that of the 


The value returned is n 


horrible mess because the 


factorial. The factorial of a 


multiplied by the factorial of n- 


variables within a function are 


positive integer is defined as 


1, which involves calling the 


local to it. 


the result of multiplying all the 


function again, with a value of 


If a function has a 


integers between 1 and the 


n-1 as parameter. 


parameter n, then the value of 


number in question together. 


And that's all there is to it. 



returning bestsofar to whatever called them. 
Notice that in AMOS this involves the copying of 
the local BESTSOFAR array to the global 
CURRENTMOVE array. 



And that's It. Enjoy your first game, and 
I'll be back next month to add some finishing 
touches to make the program's playing a bit 
more challenging. © 



CURRENTMOVE ( I ) =TEMF ( I ) 

Next I \. \ 

BLANXMOVF, [TAKEN] 
' take bach move 
CURRENTMOVE ( S ) --SCORE 
If CURRENTMOVE (5) >BESTSOFAR (5) 
For 1=0 TO S 

BESTSOFAR ( I ) -CORRENTMOVE ( I ) 
Next I 

' store move and- its score 
End If 
Next DIST 
End If 
Next ROTATION 

End I£^ 

Next Y 
Next x 



Else 

1 reached bottom of recursion 
BESTSOFAR f 5) =-99999 
For X=0 To 7 
For V-0 To 7 

' work through each board position in turn 
PIECE-BOARD{X,Y) 
PIECE «SIBE>U 

' if piece belongs to current player then move 
For ROTATION- To 7 

* try each direction 
FINDHOVE [PIECE, X , Y , ROT AT ION1 
DISTMAX-CURRENTHOVE ( 4 ) 
If DISTMAX>0 / 

For DI3T=1 To DISTMAX 

' work in this direction for as long 



DIST=DISTMAX 
End If 

CURRENTMOVE ( 4 ) =DIST 
' work in this direction 



for as long as it 



is legal 




far 



It 



MAKEMOVE 

' make tha current move 

TAKEN-Param 

EVALtJATE[SIEE] 

' get a score for this move 

CUERENTHOVE ( 5 ) -Param 

BLANKMOVE [ TAKEN] 

' take move back 

If CURRENTMOVE ( 5 ) > BESTSOFAR ( 5 ) 

: this move yields best score so 
For 1=0 To 6 

BESTSOFAR ( I ) = CURRENTMOVE ( I ) 
Next I 
End If 
Next DIST 
End If 
Next ROTATION 
End If 
Next Y 
Next X 
End If 

' we must preserve bestsofar so 

' that it con be passed back to the calling program. To do 
it must 

' be copied into the shared array CURRENTMOVE 



this. 



it 



is legal 
to the left 



For 1=0 To 6 

CURRENTMOVE (I)> 
Next I 



EESTSOFAR(I) 



' avoid checkiag for a king moving two places" 
Tf(PIECE*6 or PIECE-- 6) and ROTATIONS and » 



_ ■ 



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WES — ■ 

0394 SUPER BATTLE ZONE - Clone of 1he classic 3D Baflla Zone 

arcade game cf ihe 8Q'@. 

G395 HELICOPTER MISSION ■ -Super* Desed l»a done. Three 

diMerenl hefcoplers. each with their own missions. Warning, all text 

ts wrine-n -,n German. 

G39S PENGO 2 - Z$ yOuf Parkin OUddy Ihrowgh the Ice eaw 

nazes squashing the baddiea. Great fun. 

G397-G33S (2 DISKS, INTERNATIONAL WRESTUNG 

CHAMPIONSHIP - Fantastic wresllrggeme For one or two 

players. Slams, punches, Shoulder Weeks, elbows, jump's qH the 

ring, post and lo-ads of other bone crunching moves. 

G399 DYNAMITE WARRIORS 2 - tnerediWe Ltynablasiers clone. 

1 to 4 player edOsclive arcade action. Not to be miSSSd. 

QtftiKMW IS DISKS) THE ART OF BREAKING HEADS - 

Massive ceal-erri-up with a. ChoeSe 01 dirta-renl Characters with 

different abilities and special moves. Qtw amazing game. WB 3.0+ 

ONLY- REQU IRES AT LEAST ONE MEG OF EXTRA FAST RAM 

TO RUN PROPERLY 

G4D6 COLONIAL CONQUEST II TbhuS elemenls 1r&m 

MiCfopfOWS CrvriizallOfi and Implements them tnto Ihis interplarffl- 

Eary strategy game cf evolution and Survival NOT WE 1.3. 

i ■ ■ y .. 

G-107 X-MEN CARDS Carrjsel W K Irnin^ Dnluxe. A12QD ONLY. 
G40B TEAM TETRIS - New Tetris venation thai is played by two 
players at the same time. Requires woperat on between players. 
G4Q9 AMBASSADOR FRUfT MACHINE V2.0 - Superb fruit 
machine game with all tfw bells and whistles you'fl see in a modem 
day arcade- WB 3.0 ONLY 

G410G41 1 (2 DISKS, MISSILES OVER XERION - Remember She 
classic game Missile Commend. "Phis is a. complete overhaul or the 
Original COnMpl with new super cool graphics, power upS and 
amazing gama play. 

G412 SWIMSUIT CARDS - Cardset for Klondike Deluxe II and III. 
G4I3 STAR WARS CARDS - CardSSl for Klondike Deluxe II ft III. 
G414 EMPIRE STRIKES BACK CARD5 - Cardset 1or Klondike 
Deluxe II and III. 

G415 RETURN OF THE JtLU CARDS - Cardset 1or Klondike 
Deluxe II ft II. 

G416 DR WHO CARDS - Cardset for Klondike Deluxe 1! and III 
Due the size of Ihe cardset it has, been archived with LHA. You will 
have 1.f> sort Ihis oul for yourselF. 

G417 FAST CARS CARDS - Cardset 1or Klondike Deluxe II & 111. 
G413 PHNGWYNNE - Arcade Penguin gdlTO wilh e^Hlsed speech 
same*e& ol Graemrne Taylorl»llllll!l 

G30o VCHESS v3.1 - One ol the strongest computer Chess games 
around, wilh more extra leatures than most commerciel ones.. NOT 



G419-G420 [2 DISKS) STARWOIDS - Inspired by 1he game TtlnJSt 
and the Slar Wars Him. trilogy. bTirS Is a real hot looking sharBwere 
gams. Recenlty reviewed (and highly rated;) in AF. WB 3.0+ ONLY, 
G421 TOP HAT WILLY ■ Remember ,tet Set Willy en the old S bit 
computers, well this olatform came -s based on lhat classic. 
G322 AUTO MOBILES VI .1 1 - New release ol this Skid Marks type 
racing game. More iracks, improved car control and loads of other 
improvements. Brilliant graphics, 

13361 elle Mcpherson cardset - cards for Kiond*e Deluxe 

AGA. 

G371 SUPER OBLITERATION - Amazing Pang clone. Top game. 

Recently reviewed In Amiga Format. 

G3$l -Q3$4 (4 DISKS) SPECTRUM GAMES 1-* - Games lor the 

Spectrum bit ulator. 

G373-G375 [G DISKS) SPECTRUM GAMES 6-tO - More game for 

ma Spectrum emulator. 

0283^265 (3 DISKS) KLONDIKE DELUXE AG A - CarrJ i^r-i* n 

256 colours. Superb. L0C*. OUl rer the great cardsets. 

MAIS* ONLY, 

GJ4? TMA - Linear Sci Fi space puzzle ShOol-em-up Ivihat a 

mcUMul !). Very good . NOT WB 13 

■3397 MONOPOLY vl.1 -Great computer OOhV«rs«Dri of 1h» board 

gamB. 

G393 ROCKET! - 1 or 1 player spit screen Trust spin qfl. Utilises 

raytraced graphics 1or tw sMps. Wow. WB 3.0+ ONLY. 

G344 SHEPHERD - Based on Populas, the classic Ood game. 

Looks amazing. NOT WB 1 .3 

G304 DELUXE GALAGA - The tinasl PD shoot-am-up ol them all, 



(/Tttrrtis 

I.Jh 1 2 AF COPY v4 - Directory Opus type lile manager with 
Conliguralional buttons. NOTWB ML 
US 13 2S6 COLOUR ICONS - Give your Workbsnch an extra touch 
ol class with theso superb 2S& colour icons. WB3.0+ ONLY. 
U514 IMAGINE 3.0 TEXTURES GUIDE - For Imagine 3.0 only, 
U51 5 MUI ¥2^2 - Due to popular demand, Mulli User Interface. NOT 

U5t6-U517 <£ DISKS) PAGESTREAM v3C PATGH - Upgrades the 
earlier bug ridden version or Fagesfeam 3. 

U£l B VIRTUAL MEMORY MANAGER V2.1 - Turns your hard drive 
into Virtual memory which *■ il incrnase your overaU compular mam- 
Dry. Requires a SB04O or 66D30 CPU with MMU. NOT WB 1 .3, 
U519-U520 |2 DISKS^ MMK WORKBENCH ICONS 3 - For amiga 
users aspiring for that Workbench beautiful look. NOTWB 1.3- 
U821 VIDEOTR ACKER 2 AGA - Create amazing toOkihg AGA 
demos with no coding experience. WB 3.0+ ONLY. 
LJS23 V1DEGTRACKER 2 OCS - Vldeotracker tar noil AGA 
amlga's. NOTWB 15. 

U523.-US2fi (4 DISKS) VIDEO TRACKER EXTRAS - Four disks lull 
ol Bxira effect routines and objects, etc... 

U527 FONT FARM fl - Masses oF Bitmap tents tor use with Deluxe 
Paint, Workbench, etc-.... 

U52S FONT FARM 10 Worn hjvijlv liirii^p fonts. 
1.J523 HARD DRIVE GAME INSTALLERS Gai-<^ i" ^silk' ■ ■; F^>i 
Alien Breed AGA, Assassin S.E, Body Blows. Bocf^ Blows 2 ECS r 
Goal, Ishar2, Lemmings 2. Rutf and Tumble. Supj' SLafduSl. Jjupe' 
Frag, Zoot 2 ECS, Walker. Alien B'eed 2 Tower Assuart, Aladdin 
AGA,Desert Strike. Mortal Kombat 2, Etntama, BubWe And Squeak. 
NOT WB 1.3. 

U310 PAY ADVICE ANALSYER 4.2 - Shareware wage Slip 
database Limttad shareware version. MOT WB 1,3, 
US30 AUTO STEREOGRAM V2,d ■ Generates those amazing 3D 
random dot ■tomogram p c'ures. NOT WB 1.3. 
US31 ACTION REPLAY PRO - Software Action Reptay. Rp graph- 
ics, music-, train games etc.... WB 3.0+ ONLY. 
UD32 MORE 256 COLOUR ICONS ■ _oads no'e great icons plus 
an AGA icon editor. WB 3.0* ONLY. 

U533 ACCOUNT MASTER v3c - Shareware personal accounts 
manager. Very professional with many features, Limited Shareware 
release. NOT WB 1 .3. 

U451 SPECTRUM EMULATOR v2JTJ - New version ol the Spectrum 
emulator. Includes some games. 

U434 VIRUS WORKSHOP V+^2 - Just out. Powerful murti-funclion 
virus checker and killer. NOT WB 1,3. 
UASe DISK MAG CREATOR vl.21 - Produce your own dish 
magazines with ease- 

U443 AMIGA DOS GUIDE V 1A Provides USefut Itelp on 
what the DOS commands are and what they do. Plus many 
of the common Dos error codas explained <n English, etc 
U43? AMOS EXTENSIONS - Seven great AmosMmos Pro 
extensions adding mors commands to both languages- 
U44S ZXAM SPECTRUM EMULATOR AGA v13 
Optimised Speocy emulator to run ■games as last as 
possible. Includes games. WB 3.0+ ONLY. 
U5S1 MSOOS FOR AMIGADOS v2.3 - Adds MSDOS commands to 
AmigaDOS. For uSats torn between hvo computers. Hard drive only. 
Supports CrossDOS. NCfT WB 1.3 
J342 SUPERLEAGUE 3.&1 - Football league database arid 



U3SS TRONI CAO - &cr:err»al : designing software. 

U32T DISKSALV 2 ■ Recovers corrupted data wHh various pewertut 

procedures. Essential tool to have handy. NOT WB 1.3 

U423 X BEAT PRO ■ Drum kit music package. 

U41 5 FORCASTER v2.0b - Horse facing prediction .NOT WB t .3 

U4i2 V MORPH v2.30 - For morphing pictures. 

U 1 53 NO ERRORS - Formats disks hiding, any iatal hard errors. 

Useful lor hard drives wilh faulty tracks- 

U532-U5&3 (2 DISKS) EAGLE PLAYER v1.53l - Powerful music 

module player. Supons pJSl about every Amiga lormal tuiown. 

Hard, drrve only. NOTWB 1.3- 

U329 EPU STAKKER ■ Compressor thai hides in the background Of 

your Workbench. Can compress data up to 50%, doubting the 

capacity of your hard drive. NOT WB 1 .3- 

U2St DvCOPV 3-1 - Disk copier. A brt t*» X-Ccpy. 

US9t AMIGA FAX 1.40 - Latest shareware version ot tftis 

excellent lax software For 1a* modems. Hard drive mslaJlation only. 

U592 REND24 1.5a - Powerful image conversion programme- The 

more memory the better NOT WB 1.3 

U580 LOTTERY WINNER - Take the 
indecision out of selecting your National 
Lottery numbers, and use this 
programme instead. WB 3.0+ ONLY 



Mffr) 

JALL YOUFt RAYTRACING NEEDS MJJ 



magmc o&zeers 

U453 FURNITURE. OBJECTS - TatJlos, cfiatrs, cabinets, etc.- 

U454 HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS - Hems you may welt find around Ihe home- 

U46D-U461 (2 DISKS) AIRCRAFT OBJECTS ■ From World Vvar One biplanes to | 

tlw modem day Stealth ligfil&ra, aircraft ol many types. 

U462-U463 {2 DISKS) SCIENCE FICTION OBJECTS ■ Tron Light cycles and 

larYks, apace stations and space snips, etc... 

U464'U4fj6 (3 DISKS) ARCH1TEGHUHE OBJECTS - HWSe&. skyscraper, 

eolosseum. arwl othar types ol man made siruciure. 

U4E7-U469I (3 DISKS) CAR OBJECTS - Vehicles of all sorts, road vehicles 

to Formula One racing cars. 

U47D INSECT OBJECTS - Creepy crawlies. 

U471 DINOSUAR OBJECTS - Prehistoric beasts. 

U47-2" ANIMAL OBJECTS - Many types of mammaJs- 

(MAsme nxwRiS 

U479 IMAGINE MISCELLANEOUS TEXTURES - Tenures for Imagine, 
U4S0-U462 (3 DISKS) IMAGINE STONE TEXTURES - Textures for Imagine. 
U4B3 IMAGINE WOOD TEXTURES ■ Textures for Imagine. 
U4B4 IMAGINE ORGANIC TEXTURES -Textures lor Imagine, 



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DEMOS 






U457-U45S |3 DISKS} STAR WARS OBJECTS 
X-Wing, V-Wing, Seoul walker, Dealh Star. 
Tie Fighters, Aral loads more. 



D22& BEAUTY PACK 1 - Collection of the besl Intro's around. 

Intro's are m*ni demos. 

D229 BEAUTY PACK 2 - More great intros tor d#m°- collectors. 

D230 BEAUTY PACK 3 - Another well presented pack of intTOS 

D231 BEAUTY PACK 4 ■ The last m the series of Inlro's from the 

top eyro coding groups. 

D232 BAD ZOOM ■ Ruftbish veuaS but funky music track. I like it I 

D233 TRACKERS 242 - Great follow up to the original ground 

breaker. II you only have 2 meg, disable alt extemaf drives (inc. 

HD'sJ. .VR^.D+ONLY. 

D234 VITAL - From up and coming coding group, MySfe. WB 3.0- 

ONLY. 

DS3S-D237 (3 DISKSf MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE II - Or» 

impressive' RAO& production. II you remember Maximum Overrjnve 

you'll hava en idea of what to expect. This is 100 times batter. '.'.'B 

a.U-rONL*'. 

D23& BAZZA a RUNT - A must gel demo. Real cool. WS 3.0- 

ONLY. 

D235 BALLABORNTRO - Wicked rave demo, WB 3.0+ ONLY- 
0240-0241 {2 DISKS) ARTIFICE - From the veteran Coders, 
TRSI. Surprisingly Ihflir first AGA demo. Wow. WH 3.D+ ONLY. 
D242-D343 (2 DISKS) INFECT - WcAs b**t Wtflh wme etfra last 
memory added.Get ready the be impressed. WB 3.0+ ONLY. 
M1S6 SWAMP THING ■ Mix Ol the chad single- WB 3.0* ONLY. 
0217 POLKA BROTHERS "QEVALIA" - Great new demo, 
D219-D220 (2 DISKS) ARTIFICIAL PARADISE - More spectacular 

D221-D222 (2 DISKS) LETHAL DOSE 2 - Dont miss this amating 

derno.WB3.i3. DM i 

D223-D224 (2 DISK5I S.WITCHBACK - From Rebels. Some 

amazing routines, especially 1he roJkJf wasler. WR 3.0-~ ONLY. 

D220 GIMME ALCOHOL - What we call In the trade a dentro, a 

demo/intro combination. WB 3Z~ ONLY. 

0227 JAM M IN - Good use of Ihe AGA in prrxkicing colourtui 

mi eflacts. WB 3.0+ ONLY, 
blflS-OiaS \2 DISKS)BhG TIME SENULALFTY - Sllll popular.WR 

.ONLY. 
01 74- D 175 \2 DISKS) NINE FNGEHS Spacohail'S ground 

breaking demo- 

Sl/OiSHOlYS 

&1E&SHBI3 DISKSf BODY SHOP 3 - Clamour sWesrmw. 

WB 3-0+ ONLY. 

S159-S161 DISKS) CLAUDIA SCHtFFER P4 -Glamour 

slidoshow WB 3.0h- ONLY. 

mZT-mm |3 DISKS'i GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS - Glamour Etideshow 

WB 3.0+ ONLY. 

S140-S142 (3 DISKS) CLAUDIA SCHIFFER SLIDESHOW. THE 

WORKS - The super modet. WB 3,0+ ONLY. 

S143-S145 13 DISKS) ELLE McPHERSON SLIDESHOW, THE 

WORKS -Another super model WB 3.0+ ONLY. 

S14B-S14B (3 DlSKSl CINDY CRAWFORD SLIDESHOW, THE 

WORKS - Ricnard Gere's mBSus.WB 3.0+ ONLY. 

5 ■ iS S1 50 \2 'y SKS) FANATICS GUIDE TO COMPUTERS - 

Comic slides showing you what happens when obsessive users go 

little ort roc far. Very funny. 
S1S1 LINGERIE 1 - Models m ingerie. WB 3,0+ ONLY. 
Si 52 LINGERIE 2 - More or the same WB 3.0+ ONLY. 

5153 LINGERIE 3 - More of the same. WB 3.0+ ONLY. 

5154 LINGERIE 4 - More of the same- WB 3.0+ ONLY, 

5155 LINGERIE 5 - Wore ol the sama. WB 3.0+ ONLY, 
S13J-S136 NLP RENDEHSHOW - Captivating raytraced 
Scl Fl pictures. Reviewed In last months Amiga Formal. 

3,0+ ONLY. 

St 21 BEACH BABES 1 - Swam Suits and biklnlS-WB 3.0+ ONLY. 
Si 22 BEACH BABES 2 • More of Ihe same. WB 3J&* ONLY, 
Si 23 BEACH BABES 3 - Mora of 1he same. WB 3.0+ ONLY. 
S 1 24 BEACH BABES 4 - More ol Ihe same. WB 3.0+ ONLY. 
Si 25 BEACH BABES S - More ol the same. WB 3.0+ ONLY 
St 19 ERIKA ELENIAK - En - Bay Watch beauhr. WB 3,0+ ONLY 
5120 UHPLEASANT WAYS TO DIE • U r»K poet ed weys to top 
yourself. Sick and funny. 

AMMATtONS 

A179-A10S (& DISKS) THIP IN A VEIN - Microcosm styla ilighl: 
through a vein- with a Space craft. 71 amazing frames of animation. 
Reviewed in the November Issue Of Amiga FormaL 
B megabytes Of memory required. WB 3.0+ ONLY 



I U452 BABYLON 5 OBJECTS- Loads of ships 

I from the top TV series. 



lUssdin conjunction wlfi Imagine 2 
I lor the ulrtmate Imagine tutorial and 
I reference guide- Every single function 
lis detailed in greet depth- Essential. 
(DISK REFERENCE*. 
|U476-U477(2D1SKS) 



ROMS 



WEIRD SCIENCE CLIPART 

Cve, 26.000 Amiga and PC compsiibte etipart mes Bitmap IFF s, 

Cotoured IFF's, ProcllpS, Pagestream and Page&etter. EPS a IMG. 

PRICE :£9.35*i:i. DO PSP. 

ASSASSINS GAMES 

The complete Assessins games d*sk from t-200. This comes to 

650+ great games, PRICE: E17.95 + £1 .00 P&P 

AMOS PD LIBRARY 

The entire range of official AmDE PD software Wles, 1 ,6O0 source 

cede flies, BOO gama sound, 100 sprite banks, and more. For all 

Amos Fans everywhere. PRICE: 17.95 +£1 .00 P*P. 

AMFNET4 

Games, Utilities, music modules. Demos. Pictures, ^i&l everything 

Amiga. Al downloaded from the Aminet. All the files some ol the 

latest PC around. PRICE: £17.95 + £1 .00 PAP 

HOTTEST 4 

Vim latest Mege demos, games, utilities, slide-shows, animations, 

education. AGA ttties, IFF pics, suhd Samples, muglc 

modules,. ETC.. PRICE: £17.35 * £1 .00 PiP 

AMIGA RAYTRACER 

1000's d obfecrs for ratraciflg, Every Imaginable obfetl is here! 

PRICE: E1 7.95+ S1.P0 PAP 

COLD FISH DOUBLE CD 

Th& latwkjus Fred Fish collection on 2 CD's. Over 1000 disks 

lull o1 serious and Hesuire titles. PRICE: E2B..95 * £l .00 P&P 

LOCK AND LOAD 

About 1000 Classic Public Domain games. Hours, days, weeks, 

monrhes of pure entertainment, PRICE: £17.85 + £l .00 PAP 

PRO GIFS 

2bS colour scanned GKs, Covers subjects like abslract art, birds, 

cartoons, hogs and young women In svrimsuits. Over 5000 

images.PRICE: E17,95 + £1-00 PSP 

SOUNDS TERRIFIC 

2 jam packed CD'S lull 01 great sound samples and modules, 

PRICE' £17.95* £1.00 PBP 

WEIRD SCIENCE FONTS 

900 directories containing 1 6,800 Mes. Bitmap fonts. 

compugrapn*H fonts. Postscmt ar>d True Type and Pagaslream A 

ProDraw outlines fonts, and much more. 

PRICE: M.95+E1.O0PSP 



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and title itames.-KcnKmber (bar, prices are per disk aodnol per title. Take 
particular iwti« wiih multiple disk titles, •UKPostsge Mid. packing al 
75p coven: any order siie-'Fur detailed programme descriptions oo Lbese 
and thousands of more PD tides, check out Our catalogue disks, 
SOKK Y WE DO NOT ACCEPT CREDIT CARD ORDERS. 



PUBLIC DOMAIN PRICE LIST 

PRICE PER PD DISK £1,00 

CATALOGUE DISK VOL.1 ..£0.75 
CATALOGUE DISK VOL.2 .,. £0.75 
POSTAGE & PACKING £0.75 

Overseas orders. Use the above prices, then 

add 20% of that total, to cover the extra 

postage costs. Thank you. 

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■ LUSL1-U.I61 (2 DISKS I AIRCRAFT OBJECTS - 
I From WorW Waf i EiplansE to modem day 
I Steam Firjhtefs. Loads o( aircraft (ram history. 



U455-UJ5S [2 DISK3I STAR THEK OBJECTS | 
From trie orginai a<<i now series. 



Mfgcetwttot/s 

T7B THE CHARTS ISSUE 113 ■ The demo cherts ard general dish 

maQ&Xlne vnlth many art : e=. Very well prSssnlsd. 

T77-T7S (2 DISKS] MOVIE OUIDE (1S44) V2-04 - Messive 

dalatjaseon moves for film burls. Hard rjnve installation only. 

NOTWB |A 

TTS-Terj {2 DISKSJ CHEAT LISTER w3,05 - The largest compilation 

ol gam* cheats and tips you'll probably ever und. BOO games 

covered. NOTWB 1.3. 

T71 DEADLOCK & - The SCENE disk magazine. KriwL 

772 UPSTREAM 9 ■ Another lop Scene magazine with loads of up 

10 date news and more. 

T74-T75 (2 DISKS) OfiAPEVINE 20 - Needs no introdUCtior.. The 

latesl issue of Ihe most sort after Amiga disk meg around. 

T67-T68 (2 DISKS) LUCIFER'S BOOK OF SHADES 

S&crets -ram the occult- OVER 1S'S ONLY. 

T69 LUCIFER'S WICKED GRIWOIRE - Mora Inrfwmallon 

and practices of Itn occult OVER 18'S ONLY. 

T3B ALIENS CONFIDENTIAL - Loads of [Irw?) stories Ircm 

around the gkHH on Aliens and UFO's.More ol LtH) same. 

T2B DREAMS FOR AN ANGEL - Reveals the signicance o\ 

Objects, colours, animals, etc.. in your dreams. 

T81 ALIENS CONFIDENTIAL 2 - Compiled 
by us. The long awaited follow up. Fascina- 
ting true to life UFO related material. 

£WCAr/OM 

ES7 NIGHT MATH ATTACK - SftOOt-em-up maths game. 
E95 KIDS DISK 5 - Educational games Tor kids by O Uorsn. 
E9B KIDS DISK 8 - 'More excellent games 1nr juniors. 
EBQ DYNAMIC SKIES - Powerful astronomy programme. 
E71 CHILDRENS FAVOURITES 1 - Nursery rnyfflM, 
E53 CHILDRENS FAVOURITES S ■ Wore nursery rhymes. 
E60 CODE MUNGU3 - Teals your Higlwey Cod9 

US STARVIEW - Plots Ihe positions of the stars and planets- 
E6Q PRO ASTROLOGY - An aW for horoscope predfidiora. 
ESt ANIMAL LAND - Farm yard thtfdrans game. NOT WB 1.3 
E44 THE MATHS ADVENTURE - Maths problems adventure game 
E3G STEAM ENGINE ANIMATION - Derailed cross section ani-n. 
£37 FOUR STROKE PETROL ENGINE - Cross section animafion- 
E4E TUBOFAN ft TURBO JET ENGINES ■ Aeroplane engines:. 
E55 COMMUNICATE - Teaches you Morse code, Breile, Flags, 
sign lengoagS ate. 
E7fl EASY SPELL II ■ Spelang game. NOT WB1.3 

WM0>emeA#r 

US34-US3F3 (3 DISKS) AIRCRAFT CUPART. 

JS7 U53S f3 DISKS) WEDDING CLIPART. 

U540-U&12 (3DtSKS| SPORTS CLIPART. 

UW3-U547 (5 DISKS] CHRISTMAS CUPART. 

IJ>15 US40 \'2 D1SKSI WOMEN CLIPART. 

U&5D CAR CUPART. 

U551-US52 [2 DISKS) BUSINESS A OFFICE CLIPART. 

liBCa FAMOUS PEOPLE CLIPART. 

LI554-U5S5 [2 DISKS) CHILDREN CUPART. 

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C PROGRAMMING 69 



C PROGRAMMING 

Toby Simpson is back and it's time to start 
working on your C programming skills again. 



We've had a little break from C 
Programming, but we are now back 
after the Christmas break, broke, and 
wanting something cheap to do with our 
evenings. Amazingly, this Is just how programming 
your Amiga can help you. If you've been following 
the past few instalments, you'll know that we're 
currently in the process of knocking up a really 
useful utility to allow you to find files on disks, or 
hard disks. You know how it is, after a year of 
using your hard disk, there are thousands of files 
all over the place, and you're looking for one and 
you can't quite remember its name. But you 
remember bits of It. You could delve into the 
complex syntax of the CLI program "SEARCH", or 
alternatively you can use our shiny GUI based 
Finder with ARexx. OK, so we haven't implemented 
the ARexx yet - that's for next month. 

Last time, we put a basic GUI (Graphic User 
Interface) into the Finder. It wasn't much of a user 
interface, there were three buttons which you 



could not press, and one list-view gadget which 
showed all the matches that popped up. Our 
goal this month is to make all those buttons 
work, and add a couple of string gadgets so that 
the user can type in the search directory and 
match pattern. 

As with last month, this program is designed 
to make use of the features which Commodore 
added to the operating system from Kickstart 2. If 
you have Kickstart 1.3 or below, then to be 
honest, you should upgrade to at least 2.1, 
preferably 3.1. These new features have over 
halved the size this Finder program would have 
had to have been otherwise. 

NEW THINGS 

The major new thing which has gone into the 
program is the Event Handler. The Event Handler is 
a central point in our program which controls all 
the other bits. In our case, it is receiving 
information about which buttons have been 



pressed on the window, and then calling the 
appropriate functions to make the required 
action happen. 

On the Amiga, when you open a window, you 
can specify a list of events which are of particular 
interest to you, such as when the user clicks on 
the close gadget of the window, for example. 
These are called IDCMP events. There are a whole 
bunch of them, ranging from the Closewindow one, 
to "A disk has been inserted", or "The user re- 
sized your window ". 

We are interested in a couple, in particular. 
We want to know when the user presses on one of 
our buttons, or clicks on the close gadget. If you 
specify a list of IDCMP events when a window is 
opened, intuition creates a message port for you. 
When one of the events you have asked to hear 
about actually occurs, intuition delivers a message 
at the port. You can then pick this up, look at what 
it is and act accordingly. Let's have a look at the 
basic event handler in the Finder program: 

while { ] quit program} 
{ 

/* 

** Wait for Message to Arrives 
*/ 

wait(lL << finder_window->userPort- "•" 
>mp_SigBit) ; 
I* 
** Loop through processing events: 
*/ 
while (imsg = GT_GetIHsg ( finder, •" 



HOW TO USB THE LISTINGS 



Only certain parts of the original program have 
changed, functions which have changed 
dramatically are re-listed. Replace the copies of 
the appropriate functions you have with the new 
ones, and you should be in business. As well as 
a couple of replacements, there is an all-new 
function for handling window events, and some 
other minor changes. 

If you get into a pickle, next month we have 
the whole listing, and the current listing is also 
available in the amigashopper conference on CIX. 



i 

if ( t (GadToolsBaae ■ 
OpenLibrary ( "gadtools . library" , 37L} ) ) 

i 

printf ("Can't open gadtools. library 
V37\n"); 

cleanexit (RETURN FAIL! ; 

} 

if ( l ( QpanGUl ( s a aroh_di r , ** 
search string ) ) ) 

{ 

printf ("Unable to open window\n")j 

cle&nexit (RETttRN_PAIL) ,- 

) 

I* 



if (I {screen • LocWubScreenfNULL) j j 
{ 

printf ("Unable to lock default public 
screen. \n") ; 

return FALSE; 

} 

if ( ! (vi = Set Visual Info ( screen, V 
TAGJSONE) ) ) 

t 

printf ("unable to get visual <** 
informations") ; 

return FALSE; 

1 

/* 





"Call window Event Handier: 


"Knock up some sensible window dimensions : 


The replacement main() function: 


V 


V 




f ********************** ***+ 


EventLoop ( search_dir , search_string ) ,* *" 


win_width a screen 


-jWidth / 3; 


** 


cleanexit (Q)i /* Exit with no"" 


win_height = screen- >Height / 2; 


" void ma in { void ) 


error code *1 


if <win_width < MIH_WIDTH) win_width ■*" 


** 


> 


MN_WIDTH; 




"Main program entry function. 


The replacement OpenGUK) function: 


if (win_heigbt < MIN_HEIGHT) win_beight w 


*/ 


f ************* ************* 


= MIH_HE1GHT; 




void main(int argc, char *argv[]) 


** 


win_x = (Bcreen- 


>Width / 3) - *■ 


( 


** BOOL OpanGUI( char *ln_Drawer, char 


(win_width / 2); 




char search_dir [64] ; 


*in_Searcb) 


win_y - (soreen->Height / 2) - <•" 


char search_string[64] ; 


■« 


(win_height / 2); 






** Opens the GUI components for our program.*' 


/* 




/* 


This means opening the 


"Open the window 


we are going to use : 


** Title us and parse arguments: 


** window with gadgets on it , Returns TRUE *•" 


*/ 




*/ 


for success, FALSE for a 


if ( ! (finder_window ■ OpenWindowTao8(NULL, 


printf ("%s\n", FINDER_VERSION) ; 


"failure. 


WAjritle, 


"Finder", 


if (argc 1= 3) 


*/ 


WA_Laft, 


win_x, 


( 


BOOL OpenGUK char *in_Drawer, ahar"" 


WA_Top, 


win_y. 


printft "Argument count incorrect:\n" 


*in_search) 


WA.Width, 


win_width, 


"Usage •■ finder path •" 


C 


WA_Height, 


win_height, 


matchpattarn\n" } ; 


struct Screen *ecreen; 


WA_RKBTrap, 


TRUE, 


return; 


void *vi ; 


WA_NewLookKenus , TRUE , 


} 


long gadget_count = 0; 


WA_ Activate, 


TRUE, 


strcpy ( search_dir, *-t--t-argv) ; 


long win_width, win_height, win_x, win_y; 


WA_C lofleGadget 


, TRUE , 


strcpy(search_string, *++argv) ; 


long button_width, button_height, *" 


WA_DepthGadget 


, TRUE, 


/* 


button_start; 


HA_DragBar, 


TRUE, 


"Open any libraries we might want: 


long list_width, liat_beight, list_start,- 


WA_IDCMF, 


IDCMP_REFRESHWINDCW 1 


*/ 


long string_start, string_width; 




IDCMP_CLOSEWINDOW 1 


if (i (IntuitionBase ■ <*~ 


long window_top, window_inner; 




LISTVIEHIDCMP 1 


OpenLibrary ( "intuition . library" , 37L) ) } 


int count - 0; 




IDCMP_GADGETUP 1 


{ 


struct NewGadget ng; 




BOTTOM DCMP 1 


printf ("Can't open intuition library •" 


/« 




IDCMPJVANILLAXET 1 


V37\n") f 


** Get public screen information and W 




IDCMP.RAWKEY, 


cleanexit (RETORMLFAIL) ; 


visual info: 


TAGJBND) ) ) 





AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



70 C PROGRAMMING 



window- >UBerPort) ) 



>IAddresB; 



TRUE) | 



C 

gad = (struct Gadget Mimsg- 

awitch ( imsg- >Class ) 

I 

/« 

** Window Refresh case: 



case IDCMP_EEFRESHWINDOW: 

GT_BeginEefresh( f inder_window) ; 
GT_EndRef resh { f inder_window, *" 

break; 

/* 
** User clicked on close gadget: 
*/ 
case IDCMP_CLOSEWINDOW: 

guit_program = TRUE; 

break; 



** User pressed a button; 

V 

case IDCMP_GADGETUP: 

break; 
} 



I 



GT_ReplyIMsg(imsg) ; 



> 



So what does all this do then? It's easier than 
it looks. Firstly, there is no 'C there which we have 
not used before, let's quickly look through the 
steps for waiting for, and acting on intuition 
messages: 

1. Wait for a message to arrive. 



2. Get the message. 

3. Check to see if it is one we are 
interested in, and if so, process it. 

4. Reply to the message. 

5. Go to step 2 if there are any more 
messages, or step 1 if there are not. 

Step 4 is VITAL. You MUST reply to any 
message that you get. If you don't, then your 
Amiga will slowly run out of memory. Also note that 
in step 5, we are going back to step 2 if there are 
any more messages. This is a common trap for 
beginners on the Amiga: When you know that a 
message has arrived at your message port, it's 
important to read that as "one OR MORE 
message(s) have arrived at your message port." 
Several could arrive at once, like busses. 

Here is how we wait for a message: 

WaitflL << f inder_window->UBerPort-*' 
>mp_SigBit) ; 

This is probably the most cryptic line of C 
we've used yet! It deserves a brief explanation. 
More often than not, your program will have 
several windows, and each of these will have a 
message port. Worse still, if you are also 
processing ARexx stuff, you'll be wanting to wait 
for messages to arrive at the ARexx message port 
in your program also, so that you know when an 
ARexx command has been issued. This begins to 
look rather depressing, as you have to wait on a 
whole bunch of message ports at once, which is of 



course not possible. 

The Amiga provides a solution to this little 
puzzler, in the way of signals. Each message port 
can have a unique signal number, Each task on 
the Amiga can have up to 16 signals (There are 
ways around that limitation, but that's another 
story!). You can create a special mask of signals 
from all of your message ports, and then use the 
exec. library Wait() function, which will exit when 
any of the signal bits indicates a message has 
arrived. You can then check the result of WaitO 
and determine which signal triggered, and process 
the messages accordingly. 

In this month's listing, however, we are only 
using one port, and one signal, so we're not 
interested in the result of Wait(). The stuff inside 
the brackets on our Wait() line gets the signal 
number out of the message port structure and 
uses that as the mask. Now our signal has 
arrived, we need to loop around getting messages: 

while (imsg = GT_Get IMsg( finds r_window- 
>UserPort)) 
{ 
/* PROCESS MESSAGES HERE */ 

/* ML DONE, NOW REPLY TO THE MESSAGE 
•/ 
GT_ReplyIMsg (imsg) ; 
} 

There is an exec.library function for getting 
messages, GetMsgQ, but we don't use that here 
because we are using gadtools. library, which 



pr int f ( "Unable to open window I \ n" ) ; 
return FALSE; 



"Create context gadget: 
*/ 

first_gadget ■ NULL; 
context_gadget = *" 
CreateContext (£first_gadget) ; 
/* 
** Set up defaults: 
*/ 

memset (fcng, 0, sizeof (struct NewGadget)); 
ng.ng_visual!nfo = vi; 
ng.ng_Flags o 0; 
ng.ng_UserData = NULL; 
ng.ng_TextAttr = screen- >Font; 
ng.ng_GadgetID = 0; 
previous_gadget = context_gadget ; 

window_top = finder_window->-BorderTop + 
BORDER; 

window_inner = win_beight - (window_top) * 

(finder_window->BorderBottom + BORDER); *" 

list_width = win_width - (BORDER * 2);«" 

button_width ■ (liBt_width / 3) - border;* 

button_height = acraen->Font->ta_YSize + 

BORDER; 

list_height = window_inner - "*" 
(buttonjieight * 3) - (BORDER * 2); 
/* CHQ */ 

liat_etart = window_top; 
button_start = window_top + list_height +* 
BORDER; 

string_width ■ (button_width * 2) + •" 

BORDER; 

string_start ■ button_width + {BORDER » 2 ) ; 
I* 

** Create list-view first; 



ng . ng_TopEdge 
ng.ng_LeftEdge 
ng.ng_Width 
ng.ng_Height 



list_start; 
BORDER; 
liflt_widtfc; 
list_heigbt; 



gadget_list [gadget_count] = 
CreateGadget (LISTVIEW_KIND, previous_gadget, 
fing, GT_Underscore, '_', TAG_DONE) ; 
previoua_gadget = 
gadget_list [gadget_countl ; 
gadget_count++; 



"Now create our buttons: 

*/ 

ng.ng_LeftEdge = atring_Htart; 

ng . ng_TopEdge = but ton_s tart; 

ng.ng_Height = button_height; 

ng.ng_GadgetID ■ ng*ng_Gadget!D + 1; 

ng.ng_Width ■ string_width; 

i* 
"Put a Btring gadget in: 
*/ 

ng.ng_GadgetText = "_Drawer"; 
gadget_list Igadget_count] = 
CreateGadget(STRING,.F,IND, previoua_gadget, * 
£ng, 

GTST_MaxChara , 255, 
GTST_Str i ng , in_Drawe r , 
GT_Under score, '_', T AG_DONE ) ; 
sg_Drawer = gadget_list [gadget_count] ; 
previouB_gadget ■ *" 
gadget_list [gadget_countl ; 
gadge t_c ount + + ; 

ng.ng_GadgetID = ng.ng_GadgetID t 1; 
ng . ng_TopEdge += button_height; 
ng , ng_GadgetText = M _Search ff ; 
gadget_l i s t [ gadge t_ccunt ] = 
C re at eoadge t ( string_k ind , pre vious_gadge t , "•" 
4ng, 

GTST_KaxChars, 255, 
GTST_String, in. Search, 
GT_Underscore, '_', TAG_DONE) ; 
sg_Search = gadget_list [gadget_count] ; 
previouB_gadget = 
gadget_list [gadget_ccunt] ; 
gadget_count++; 

ng.ng_GadgetID m ng.ng_GadgetID +1; 
ng.ng„LeftEdge = BORDER; 
ng . ng_TopEdge += (button_heignt + BORDER); 
ng.ng_Width ■ button_width; 

count = ; 
while (but ton„text [count ++]) 
C 

ng . ng_GadgetText = button_text [count - ' 
111 

gadget_liet [gadget_count] = 
CreateGadget (BUTTON_KIND, previous_gadget, 
tng, GT_lInderscore, '_', TAG_DONE); 
previoua_gadget = 
gadget_list [gadget_count] ; 
gadget_count++j 



ng.ng_GadgetiD • ng.ng_GadgetID + 1; 

} 

I* 

** Fall over if gadgets were not created 

right : 
V 
if (first_gadget ■> NULL) return FALSE; 



**Add our buttons to the window: 
*/ 

AddGList ( f inder_window, first^gadget, 0,* 
-0, NULL); 

Re f re shGL i st ( f ir Bt_gadget , f inder_window , 
NULL, ~0); 

GT_Refreshwindow(finder_window, NULL) i 
return TRUE; 



ng . ng. _ Le f t Edge 
BORDER) ; 



+ = {biitton_wldth + 



) 

The new Event Loop function: 

m* 

** void EventLoop{ char *in_Drawer, char 

*in„Searoh) 

**Main Event Handler 
*/ 

void EveatLoop (char *in_Drawer, char * 
*in_search) 
( 

char search_dir(64] ; 
char search_string[64) ; 
char search_pattem[128] ; 

char work_at ring [128]; 

struct Node *node; 
struct IntuiMeBBage *imag; 
struct Gadget *gad; 
BOOL gu.it_program - FALSE ; 

/* 
"Initialise our list: 
*/ 
NewList(£find_list) ; 

/* 
** Process events: 
*/ 
while ( !guit_program) 

{ 

I* 

**Wait for Message to Arrive: 

waitdL << finder_window->userPort- 
>mp_SigBit) ; 
/* 
••Loop through processing events: 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY T995 



C PROGRAMMING 71 



contains special replacement functions for 
GetMsgQ and ReplyMsg() which deal with the 
gadtools. library functions. 

That's pretty much all there is to it. The listing 
is pretty self explanatory after you know this. 
We're looking for three message types, 
IDCMP_CL0SEWINDOW, IDCMP_GADGETUP and 
IDCMP_REFRESH WINDOW, the latter of which is 
simple to deal with in our case - we just call a 
couple of functions in the gadtools. library to 
perform the refresh operation for us. 

You'll note that we have moved the search 
code from the main() function into the EventLoop. 
The program still requires an initial path and 
search string to be passed in from the CLI, and 
those are used to set the initial two values in our 
new string gadgets. Pressing the FIND button on 
the window will cause the search code to be run. 

We've also moved the listview handling stuff 
into the EventLoop, so that we can clear and re- 
start the list if the user wishes to do more than 
one search. Note how straightforward it was to 
add new gadgets to our window. If we were feeling 
particularly clever, we could do aii of our gadget 
creation in one loop and have a shorter, easier to 
maintain array of simple information for the 
gadgets we wanted (eg, type, width, height, and so 
forth), but for windows of the complexity we are 
using, it is not necessary to go the additional work 
of writing such a routine, (if there's enough 



demand, we could knock up a decent requester 
generator in a future C programming article as a 
programming exercise, write to me at the AS 
address if you're interested.) 

We certainly have not covered everything, 
you'll note that none of the keyboard short-cuts 
are working this month. To act on these, we need 
to receive and process an additional IDCMP 
message, IDCMP_VANILLAKEY - which gives us 
access to the ASCII codes of any key which is 
pressed by the user while our window was 
selected. We'll add that one in next month, and 
finally remove the dependency on the CLI for good 
(but certainly retain the option). 

You'll see that because we kept the program 
nice and neat and modularised, we have been able 
to use one of the functions for something it was 
never intended to be used for: 

sprintf twork_string, " Searching '%s' * 
for '%s'", search_dir, search„ string) ; 
NotifyFind(work_string) ; 

Our NotifyFindO function is used to show the 
user each match we have found for their search in 
the listview gadget. Since this simply takes a 
string parameter and adds it to the screen list, we 
can use it to output other stuff. In the above case, 
we prepare a string showing what is been 
searched for, and where, and use NotifyFindQ to 
put that on the display. We also add a line to the 
end showing how many matches were found. This 



way the list is neater, as the user can see what 
was been searched for, and get a count of 
matches at the of the list. 

USING THE LISTING 

The listing has been tested under both SAS/C and 
DICE. In order to use the listing with DICE you will 
need a reasonably recent version, such as that 
which is provided with Amiga Shopper's "Complete 
Amiga C" book. In addition to a compiler, you'll 
need the source code from last time around. The 
listing is getting pretty large now, so we're not 
able to print the whole thing and fit an article in as 
well this month! Next month, however, the 
complete current listing will be on the coverdisks. 

As well as a full current listing for our finder 
program, we will be looking into ARexx, and how 
we can add it into our application. The idea is, to 
allow ARexx to set the search directory and match 
pattern for us. This provides us with some really 
cool options, for example: An ARexx script to get a 
list of all drives and then search every one of your 
hard disk partitions for a match, would only be a 
few lines long. 

This is what makes ARexx so useful to us, it 
allows users to self-expand application programs 
you have written to do the jobs they want it to. 
Well, with that to mull over, I'm off, but tune in 
next month for the next thrilling, gripping 
instalment of The C programming Course! €9 




NotifyFindC 



--">( 



while (imsg ■ GT_GetIHsg(finder_window-* 
>UserPort ) ) 
C 

gad - [struct Gadget *)imBg->IAddress; 
switch (imsg->ClasB) 
{ 

/* 

"Window Refresh Case: 
*/ 
case IDCMP_RlFKESHWimOtf: 

GT_BeginRef rash (f inder_window) ; 
GT_EndRe f re sh ( f inder_wi ndow , TRUE ) ; 
break; 
/* 
**Ueer clicked on close gadget: 



strcpy(search_dir, (( struct*' 
stringlnfo * } &g_Draver->SpecialInf o) ->Buf fer) ; 

strcpy [seareh_string, ( (struct*" 
Stringlnfo *)sg_Search->Specialmfo) ->Buffer) ; 

sprintf [work_string, * 
"Searching '%b' for '%s'", search_dir,* 
search_string) ; 

NotifyFind[work_string) ; 



** Pre -Parse the AmigaDOS 



search pattern: 



Par sePat t e ruHoC aa e ( eearch_Btr i ng , 
search_pat t e rn , 127); 



Bases part with this: 

/* 
** Defines: 

V 

♦define TOTAL_GADGETS 

#define BORDER 
♦define MIN_HEIGHT 

♦define MIN_WIDTH 

♦define GID_LIST 
♦define GIB_DRAWER 

♦define GID_SBARCH 
♦define GID_Q,UIT 
♦define SID_Fimi 
♦define GID_CANCEL 

/* 

** Function prototypes : 



case IDCMF_CLOSEWIHDOW: 


**Start the search: 






BOOL Searchnir( char 'directory, char * 


guit_program = TRUE; 


•/ 






'pattern) ; 


break; 


if ( ! (SearchDir(search 
search_pattern) J J 


_dir 


m- 


BOOL Not i fyF ind ( char "file); 
void cleanexit (int returnvalue) ; 


1* 


NotifyFindt"- Ope rat 


-on 




BOOL Ope aGUI (char *in_Drawer, char*" 


** Button Press: 


not totally successful."); 






*in_search) ; 


*/ 


else 






void EventLoop (char *in_Drawer, char* 


case I DCMP_GADGETtJP : 


{ 






*in„Search) ; 


swi t c h ( gad - > Gadge t IE ) 


sprintf (work„,string. 


m- »- 


void CloseGUI (void) ; 


C 


%l& matches found", f ilea_niatched) ; 






/* 


case GID_QUIT: 


Notifyfind[work:_stri 


ig) ; 




** Global variables: 


quit_program = TRUE; 


> 






*/ 


break; 


break; 






long f ilea_matched = 0; /* Total files *" 


case GID_FIND: 


} 






found */ 


/* 








char 'VERSION = "\0$VER:"FINDER_VERSION; 


**Re-Initialiae List: 


break; 






struct Gadget *firet_gadget. 


*/ 


} 






*context_gadget , *orevioua_gadget ; 


while (node =s* 


GT_ReplyIMsg ( imsg ) ; 






struct Gadget *sg_Search, *sg_Drawer; 


RemHeadl&f ind list) ) 


} 






struct Gadget *gadget_list[ TOTALJ3ADGETS ] ; 


< 


} 






struct Window *finder_window = NULL; 


free (node- >ln_Name) ; 


/* 






char *button_text [] = 


free (node} ; 


** Clear out list if anything in it 






{ 


1 


*/ 






"_Quit", "_Find", "_Cancel", NULL 


NewL i st ( Sf ind_l i s t ) ; 


while (node - RemHead(sfind_list) ) 
( 
free (node- >ln_Name) ; 






); 


GT_satGadgetAttrs (gadget_list [GID_LIST] , * 






Remove these lines from cleanexit(): 


finder window, HULL, 


free (node) ; 






/* 


GTLV_Labels, HULL, 


} 






** Free our list: 


TAG_DONE) ; 


/* 






*/ 


files_matched = 0; 


** Program exit: 
*/ 

return; 






while (node = SemHeadlsf ind_list) ) 
{ 
free (node- >ln_Name) ; 


/* 






**Pull out search strings: 


) 






free(nade) ; 


*/ 


Replace the definitions from under 


the 


last 


} 


NotifyFindf""); 


♦include line up to juBt before the Library 





AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



72 MUSIC 



miRA 



It 's time the Amiga got an accessible 
12-bit sound sampling system. Is Aura 
the answer to the Amiga musician's 
dreams? Tim Tucker finds out 



Sampling sounds on the Amiga has been 
possible for some time, but in the past the 
sound quality has been limited by the fact 
that most samplers available are of only 8-bit 
quality. There are both 12 and 16-bit samplers 
available for the Amiga, but they're often 
expensive and have traditionally only been made 
to fit in the extra card slots on the Amiga 2000, 
3000 and 4000 range of computers. Owners of 
Amiga 600s and 1200s have thus been unable to 
share in the joys of high resolution sound 
digitising (apart from HlSoft's own Clarity 16, 
which didn't really hit the mark). 

That's all about to change with the release of 
HiSoft's Aura sampling package, Aura consists of 
a hardware sampling cartridge plus sampling 
software, and is capable of recording and playing 
back sounds In both 8-bit and 12-bit resolutions. 
The twist is that the sampling cartridge fits into 
the PCMCIA slot on Amiga 600 and 1200 
computers (sorry 500 owners, you're still out of 
the picture when it comes to high quality 
sampling), and does not plug into the parallel port 
at the back of the Amiga as is usually the case. 

Setting up the Aura sampling system is a 
piece of cake. The hardware slots neatly into the 
PCMCIA slot, and rubber feet are provided (but not 
stuck on bizarrely, you have to do that yourself) to 
ensure that the unit stays level with the computer 
and doesn't put unnecessary strain on the PCMCIA 
port. Loading the software is equally trouble free, 
and as you'd expect it's simplicity itself to install 
the program onto your hard drive if you have one. 

Probably the most complicated thing about 
setting up is connecting the hardware to external 
sources, The hardware itself has more than the 
usual number of input and output plugs, and all 



the sockets are standard stereo phonos, just like 
those found on home hi-fi systems. First up are 
the left and right input sockets. This is where you 
plug in the leads from external audio equipment 
for sampling on the Amiga. You can use almost 
any standard sound producing source - a hi-fi 
amp, tape recorder or CD player are the most 
usual pieces of equipment to sample sounds from. 

Say for example you wanted to sample some 
music from the new Stone Roses album on CD, 
You'd put the CD in your portable CD player (for 
example), then take the phono leads from the 
headphone socket of the CD player to the stereo 
input sockets on the Aura hardware. In this 
particular case you'd need a lead with 3.5mm 
jack on one end and stereo phono on the other 
(these are easy to get hold of from any high street 
Dixons store). 

Next to the input sockets are two similar 



phono plugs for stereo output. Without these you 
wouldn't be able to hear or monitor the samples 
that you want to take. These are best connected 
to the amp of your hi-fi or to the input of a mixing 
desk. You could, for example, plug the stereo 
phono lead from the output of the Aura cartridge 
to the Aux port on the amp of your hi-fi, and then 
listen to your sampling work through your home hi- 
fi speakers. 

There is yet another pair of inputs next to the 
outputs, but this time they actually connect to the 
Amiga's audio phono jacks. This may seem a bit 
weird when the cartridge is already attached to the 
Amiga via the PCMCIA slot, but it is necessary to 
make this connection if you want to hear the 8-bit 
samples that your Amiga is capable of, as well as 
the 12-bit samples that the Aura can handle. 
Feeding the output from the Amiga effectively 
mixes the two outputs and plays them both 




Aura is a MIDI compatible sample player, meaning 
that you can assign samples to keys on a MIDI 
keyboard and play them In real time. 



USING THE SAMPLES 




Mk part from being 


sample and make it loop four 


external MID! keyhoard mu 


m\ compatible with 


times, then 'mmediately follow 


can alter which MIDI "runnel 


Oct a MED 5.5 when it arrives. 


it with another one bar drum 


Aura re'-, pond^ to and allocate 


there are ways of playing high 


beat that loops twice 


different samples to separate 


quality 12-bit samples from 


Although inherently limited 


keys or sets ol keys or the 


within Aura Itself. Click on the 


(you can only play one 


MIDI keyboard 


MIDI/SEQ button and you're 


sample at a time), it is a very 


Samples are mapped 


taken to a part of the program 


handy way of chocking whether 


across »he keyboard so that 


which allows you to 


drum breaks worl< well next to 


you can change the prtch of a 


determine how you want to 


each other 


sample by playing diff'""<Tr 


control the samples. 


It could also be used to lav 


pitches on the keyboard, but 


First of all, you can string 


down sampled drum beats 


there s also all Octave Shift 


separate samples together 


onto tape, because as long as 


setting if you want the simple 


using the basic sample 


you have edited the samp..^ 


to play at the original pitr h 


sequencer 


carefully you nan make the 


whatever key you play it op 


You give each item in the 


loop accurate without having to 


You car stive the MIDI 


sequence list a sample to 


fiddle around with tempo 


maps to disk for later use If 


play, out of the windows in 


settings, like you would if yoj 


you haven t got .'i MIDI 


memory, as well as a name 


were triggering the sample 


keyboard you can always 


and a loop setting. 


from a MIDI sequencer 


choose to map samples to 


For example, you could 


The other play option is to 


keys on the Amiga keyboard 


take a one bar drum beat 


trigger the samples from an 





The range of editing facilities In Aura Is 
remarkable. You can alter the volume, treble, 
bass and even the compression of any sample. 



HARD DISK RECORDING 

™ s well as sampling sounds into memory. 

Aura can also sample directly to hard 
disk. This is a very useful option, as the 
amount of space on a hard disk is much larger 
than RAM, and therefore can store huge 
samples In fact, with enough hard disk space 
you could record an entire song digitally. 

With hard disk recording, the sample never 
fioes into memory instead it is stored directly 
onto hard riisk When playing bark the sample 
information rs dragged straight off the hard 
ddve and played nut of the audio out if you 
want to take advantage o f this feature (for 
example, to rrjake master digital recordings of 
you' music 1 it's important that you have a hard 
clnvc with a fast disk acci >s -need 

If youi hard drive is slow, at accessing you 
; an improve the situation by freeing up space 
on the hard drive, as the drive heads don I 
have to skip around the disl- surface so mui I 
tn store the sample data 



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Click on the FX button and the bottom panel 
changes to reveal all the effects you could 
possibly want. And they're real high quality too. 

through the sampling hardware. 

Once you've got the mess of leads spawned 
by the connection process out of the way, it's time 
to start recording some samples, and it's a simple 
double click on the program icon to get started. 
The disk comes with a few example samples that 
you can load straight away and start messing 
around with, and the manual outlines a tutorial to 
get you going, which is handy if it's your first 
attempt at working with 
sampled sounds. 

For more experienced 
sampler users, the 
software is incredibly 
intuitive. All the controls 
are well laid out, there is 
none of the clutter or 
garishness that can be 
found in so many sampling 
programs, and it's 
incredibly easy to feel your 
way around the program 
and discover things for 
yourself (which is what I 
started by doing). 

The program defaults 




this stage may be the most baffling, as at this 
point you can't hear any sounds that you're 
feeding into Aura, you can only see their wave 
forms on the screen. 

To actually hear the sounds you simply click on 
the Monitor button. Two large windows appear to 
show you the waveforms of the incoming sounds, 
and the audio is heard through wherever you've 
routed the output of the sampling hardware. The 
processing power required to render the sample in 
real time leaves the Amiga poweriess to do 
anything else, even moving the mouse pointer, so 
the monitor option is purely for determining the 
level of the desired sound, and to check whether it 
is either too loud, which results in distortion and 
clipping, or too soft, which lacks the quality of a 
higher volume sample due to the less favourable 
signal to noise ratio. 

When you've adjusted all the output volumes 
to the correct levels, it's time to actually take a 
sample yourself. The first thing that you have to do 
is open a New Window, in which the sample can 
be recorded. The program allows up to 9 windows 
to be resident in memory at any given time, as 
long as you have enough RAM to cope with them 
all. You only see the window you're currently 
working on at any given time, but you can easily go 
to another window by 
pulling down the Windows 
menu at the top right of 
the title screen and 
choosing the window you 
want to view. This is a 
great system, because it 
means that you can keep 
track of all the samples 
you're doing without having 
to keep loading them from 
floppy or hard drive. It also 
vastly improves the edit 
options, as you can easily 
cut or copy a piece of the 
sample from one window 
and paste it into another. 



You can sequence the samples from within 
Aura, which Is handy If you want to lay down 
repetitive loops, such as drum breaks. 

to sampler mode, and shows two little windows {if When you open a new window, you get a 

you're working in stereo) which indicate the levels dialogue box in which you specify the kind of 

of the incoming audio. If you're new to sampling, sample you want to create, whether it be mono or 



HOW MANY BITS? 



Although we've said that 
the Aura Is a 12-bit 
sampler, samples can only be 
saved as 8-bit or 16-bit 
samples. Why? The thing is 
that, although the Aura 
hardware Is a 12-blt sampling 
system, the software holds 
sounds Internally and stores 
them on disk in either 8-bit or 
16-bit format. 

When saving a sample file, 
you have three options. You 
can save it as an IFF file, which 
is the standard sample format 
used by most other Amiga 
programs that support sample 
files. The IFF standard can only 
be used to save 8-bit samples, 
but although the sound quality 
is inferior to 12-bit samples, it 
allows you to use samples in 
MIDI sequencers, with other 
externally sequenced sounds. 



If your file is a 12-bit 
sample (stored as a 16-bit file 
in memory), you can save it 
onto disk as an AIFF file, which 
is a more adaptable form of 
the IFF standard. You can't 
load AIFF samples into other 
programs, but it does produce 
better quality samples, and the 
manual recommends that you 
use it as often as possible. 

It also says that third party 
developers are starting to 
integrate support of AIFF 
samples into their software, for 
example the forthcoming 
OctaMED 5.5 will be able to 
take full advantage of these 
files. This is great news, as for 
the first time you'll be able to 
use the high quality samples 
that the Amiga is capable of in 
wider contexts, such as 
trackers and sequencers. 



The final option is to save 
the file in RAW format. This is 
of little use, because it doesn't 
contain any information about 
the sound, not even whether 
it's 8-blt or 12-blt! If you want 
to load a RAW sample back 
into Aura, you have to open a 
window with all the right 
parameters (e.g. resolution and 
frequency) already in place. 

If you save in RAW format, 
it's wise to give the sample a 
name which reminds you what 
kind of sample it is. What's the 
point of it? Well it allows you to 
load files into public domain 
tracker programs, many of 
which can only accept sounds 
in this format. It's also very 
handy for programmers who 
don't want to go through the 
rigmarole of interpreting the IFF 
or AIFF sound formats. 




The two windows at the bottom display the 
incoming sound waves. The recorded sample Is 
displayed In the main window above. 




You want filters? You got 'em. There is a vast 
array of filter options available which can rid your 
samples of any unwanted frequencies. 

stereo, and 8-bit or 16-bit (the 16-bit option 
creates a 12-bit sample - see the separate box 
entitled HOW MANY BITS? for an explanation). You 
also can determine what frequency you want the 
sample recorded at, and the length of the sample 
in terms of the maximum possible size that your 
memory permits. 

After you've OKed the kind of sample you want 
to record, the next step is to click on Record just 
before the sound you wish to sample. It helps if at 
this point you have a way of monitoring the source, 
so that you can time the Record enable right. This 
is no problem, you just have to run your CD player 
(or whatever) through the hi-fi as well as out of the 
headphone sockets and into Aura. If, however, the 
only output you have on the source is the 
headphone socket (as is the case with a Walkman 
for instance) then you'll have to use a bit of guess 
work to get it right. 

Some sampling programs feature a way to get 
round this by allowing you to trigger the recording 
process whenever the incoming sound goes above 
a certain pre-determined level. It's a shame that 
Aura doesn't support this feature, as it can be a 
great time saver, especially when the sample is 
preceded by silence, as is the case with many 
sampling CDs. Still, it's not an insurmountable 
problem, and only takes a little more care when 
actually setting up the sound. 

I think you'll be extremely surprised by the 
results in Aura. The sound quality of 12-bit 
samples is quite incredible, and easily usabie in 
the most professional situations. You'll need a lot 
of memory and hard disk storage space to get the 
most out of the package, but if you're serious 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



74 MUSIC 



about making high quality digital recordings, it's 
worth upgrading your Amiga to cope with it. 1200 
owners are the best off, because the 2 Megs of 
RAM is really the minimum requirement if you want 
to take advantage of the superior quality of the 
Aura. Of course, you could always save a lot of 
memory by sampling in mono 8-bit, but that really 
defeats the object of buying a 12-bit sampler in 
the first place. 

The power of Aura doesn't stop at recording 
high quality samples though. Click on the Edit 
button and you get a whole new panel at the 
bottom of the screen which provides plenty of 
editing operations for you to perform on the 
sample. It's worth mentioning at this point that the 
user interface (horrible expression that, but you 
know what I mean) is extremely well thought out. 
All the controls are accessed by buttons on the 
main screen, meaning you don't have to constantly 
swap between different screens and windows of 
the program. 

Also, instead of trying to cram the screen with 
all the controls at once, you only ever see the 
buttons that correspond to the mode that you're 
in. So all the edit operations, such as Cut, Copy 
and Paste, are only ever on screen when you're in 
edit mode. It's all extremely intuitive, and even the 
first time user should find it far less confusing than 
the majority of sampling programs. Better still, if 
you're a dedicated menu person, all the controls 
can be found in pull down menus, in many cases 
with corresponding keyboard controls marked. The 
whole program gives you a lot of options, and it 
makes accessing them as painless as possible, 
while still being flexible enough to allow you to use 




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preferences menu, and Aura doesn't disappoint. 
There's plenty to mess about with here. 




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Aura, there's 


into the Amiga, effectively 


so with Aura. The Echo, 


also an entire section 


treating Aura as an outboard 


Reverb, Metallic and Phaser 


dedicated to adding effects to 


effects unit. 


deserve a special mention for 


your sampled sounds. The 


Alternatively (and far more 


their ability to bring even a 


effects available 


are: 


usefully) you can edit existing 


drab sound to psychedelic life. 


Pitch Bend 


Modulate 


samples so that the effect is 


The Aura goes even one 


Metallic 


Reverse 


built into the sample itself, and 


stage further and provides a 


Multi Pitch 


X-Phaser 


there's a very handy preview 


completely separate Mixed 


Phaser 


Bounce 


function to check whether the 


effects section, which provides 


Ramp 


Pitch Shift 


effect will work, plus the 


pre-set combinations of all the 


Echo 


Multi Echo 


essential Undo if it all goes 


different effects, with a whole 


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horribly wrong. 


scrolling list on tap, providing 


Each effect gives you control 


The quality of effects is, in 


such things as Phaser Reverb 


parameters to adjust, for 


line with the sound quality in 


and Metallic Echo. 


instance the Reverb allows 


general, extremely high, far 


Again, this is an 


you to alter the depth and 


surpassing those of any other 


astoundingly useful addition 


delay settings. 




samplers I've heard on the 


which broadens the sonic 


You can apply the effects 


Amiga, In fact, until now, I've 


possibilities infinitely. It just 


to the sounds in Aura in real 


always treated the effects 


oozes professionalism. 


time, which alters sounds 


section of a sampling program 





4 pull down menu can be used to select one of 
the 8 sample windows In memory. Great for 
cutting and pasting segments of samples. 



your own preferred method. Full marks! 

Editing is very comprehensive. As well as the 
usual cut, copy, insert and paste, there are also 
options for volume, compression, fade, treble lift, 
bass lift and reverse. This gives you all options 
you need to subtly shape the sound if it's not 
quite the way you want it. You can apply edits to 
the entire sample or to an area of it that you mark 
off with the mouse, called the range. There's a 
separate section of the software entirely dedicated 
to providing special audio effects to your digitally 
recorded sounds. See the box named EFFECTIVELY 
SPEAKING for details. 

As well as all the effects and editing options, 
you can also use an extremely comprehensive 
array of filtering options, allowing you to 
manipulate the frequency content of a sample to 
your heart's content. There are enough options in 
here to keep even the most avid sound engineer 
amused. You can selectively cut or boost user- 
definable bands of frequencies, either Finite 
Impulse Response (FIR) or Infinite Impulse 
Response (IIR). These terms describe the way that 
the filters work on the sounds. FIR filters are more 
accurate (you can determine the upper and lower 
bands of the frequency), but they can only cut the 
specified frequencies. IIR filters, on the other 
hand, are easier to use, and also allow you to 
boost as well as cut. 

There are various displays which help you to 
pinpoint the exact part of the sound that you want 
to apply filters to, including a spectrum analyser, 
which indicates graphically the presence of a 
whole range of frequencies in the sound, and a 3D 
frequency display known as the 3D FFT screen. 

All in all, the Aura is a quite astounding piece 
of kit for the Amiga, and at an absolutely incredible 
price. It requires a fairly powerful Amiga system to 
make the most of it, with 1200 owners (obviously) 
being the best served. Despite this, the results 
are quite simply astonishing. The sound quality is 
unbelievably good, and it's true to say that this 
wouldn't be out of place in a top professional 
studio. Add to this the extremely sexy effects 
section, and you've got an aural treat. 

Even more impressive is the lovely way the 
program's been put together. Every single option 
that you could possibly want has been catered for, 
and yet the program never feels difficult to use. 
Everything's logically laid out, and it appears 





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musicians first and foremost. If you're looking for 
a seriously powerful sampling package for your 
Amiga 600 or 1200, there really is no other 
choice. I'd go so far as to say this is the best 
audio product of the year on the Amiga. CD 



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Aura 



Features: 94% 

There's ail that you could dream of in a sampler, and a 
lot more besides. 

Ease of Use: 95% 

Quite simply one of the best designed bits of software 
I've ever seen on the Amiga, 

Documentation: 90% 

A clearly written manual that provides a good tutorial 
for beginners, as well as making all the important 
information accessible to old hands. 

Value for Money: 97% 

An amazing price. How did they manage it? 

Overall Rating: 96% 

It's rare that we see a product that 
excites us on the music front, but 
Aura has done just that. 
This deserves to go 
down as an Amiga 
classic. Buy it if you're 
at all serious about 
sampling on your Amiga. 




AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



OPINIONS 75 



Know what I mean? 

Discover what the top industry figures really think. 
Dale Larson on future communications 



Once upon a time, most 
computer users were 
addicts who spent most 
of their waking hours alone with 
a machine, having no contact 
with others. The relationship 
between man and machine was 
all about the machine, In the 
mid to late eighties, revolutions 
In user interfaces made 
computers usable even by those 
who would not join an electronic 
monastery. 

These revolutions made it 
easy for people and computers to 
connect. Still, using a computer 
was a solitary activity. With 
personal computers, the 
connection was between a single 
man and a single machine, alone 
together for whatever work or play 
they had to share. 

Larger computers might have 
several people connected to one 
machine, but it was all still 
mostly about what the machines, 
not the people. The revolution of 
the nineties is in connecting man 
and machine to other machines 
and to other men. It is the 
revolution of communications. 
Gone are the days when Mhz and 
Mb define the power of a 
computer (and thereby the 
coolness of their owner). 

Today, bragging rights are 
measured in bps (Bits Per 
Second). Whatever the speed, it 



is no longer about what machines 
do, but about what people do. As 
modems and LANs increase in 
popularity and local BBSs are 
replaced by global networks, 
people are communicating in new 
ways, doing things never before 
possible; The most noticeable 
widespread impact so far has 
been email. 

Almost as cheap as the snail 
mail and almost as fast as the 
phone, it is the best of both. 
Everyone who is anyone has an 
email address. I send email to 
my customers in Japan and 
Germany, to my political 
representatives in Washington, 
D.C., and to my friends where 
ever they may be. I often respond 
to email within minutes of its 
sending. Sometimes an email 
conversation consisting of several 
rounds back and forth takes 
place during a single afternoon. 

I pay a low flat rate monthly 
fee for the privilege of sending 
unlimited email. I read (or ignore) 
my email as I choose, unlike the 
blasted phone which insists on 
bothering me at its convenience. 
Though email may be the most 
common new communications 
technology, cooler things are out 
there. The World Wide Web allows 
hypertext documents to 
transparently link to other 
documents on computers across 



the globe so that you can browse 
(or "net surf) from movie 
reviews to Hubble telescope 
photos to online shopping malls. 

In these documents you can 
even hear sound samples and 
view pictures. Everything is 
constantly updated, and most 
documents point to dozens of 
other interesting documents. 

With a little patience and 
knowledge, you could set up an 
AGA Amiga and a fast modem to 
start surfing the experientially 
growing Web today. The future 
holds more brilliance. Last week, 
the Rolling Stones broadcast 
twenty minutes of a live concert 
video over the Internet MBone 
(anyone cool enough to have a 
128kbps Internet connection with 
an MBone feed could watch for 
free). 

New hardware on PCs allows 
video conferences over a 
28.8kbps standard phone link. 
Hey, the multimedia of the future 
isn't going to be on standalone 
machines, it is going to be across 
wicked new networks. 

By the time that has 
happened, you'll just be a by- 
stander if you haven't enjoyed at 
least some of the fruits of today's 
communications technology. The 
communications revolution has 
been building, and its time has 
come. Join in or be uncool! 



Connect 

Your 

Amiga 

A .Guide to the Internet, U 
BBSs and Online Services 



Dale L. Larsa 



"Hey, the multimedia of 

the future isn't going to be 

on standalone machines, it 

is going to be across 

wicked new networks." 



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"When you go to a show 

like the World of Amiga, 

you really understand 

what makes the Amiga 

unique - the users," 



Computer shows are funny 
things. I mean, you go In, 
you wander around for a 
bit, chat to a couple of dealers, 
see what new things are on 
show, have a coup of tea and 
before you know it the security 
guards are about to set the dogs 
loose to get you out of the hall 
because it's time to go home. 

Well, that's the way it seems 
to happen to me, anyway. The 
World of Amiga Show was 
certainly no exception to this. I 
visited it on a decidedly gloomy 
looking Friday afternoon, and 
plenty of other people made the 
effort as well. It wasn't the 
biggest computer show I've ever 
seen, but it was pretty damn 
busy. All of the dealers I spoke to 
certainly seemed to be pleased 
with the turnout, and nearly 
everybody I saw was carrying 
something that they had bought. 
I spoke to several people 



from Commodore UK and they 
felt that the show was a real shot 
in the arm for them. It's very 
easy to get disheartened, 
especially when you are in the 
kind of situation that Commodore 
UK are in. It's very easy to think 
that it doesn't really matter what 
happens to the Amiga. However, 
when you go to a show like the 
World of Amiga, you really 
understand what makes the 
Amiga unique - the users. 

When we ran the Future 
Entertainment Show in October, 
there were three theatres; the 
Amiga one, the PC one and the 
console theatre. The biggest 
crowds were consistently at the 
Amiga theatre, Sure, there were a 
few crowds for the Doom 
challenge on the PC one and a 
pretty good crowd for some of the 
console sessions, but these 
quickly faded away. The Amiga 
sessions were consistently well 



attended and there was one 
other big difference - people 
asked questions. 

Instead of chasing after the 
latest £60 console game 
sensation {which everybody will 
be bored with by next week) or 
trying to shoot the editor of PC 
Gamer, Amiga owners were 
asking insightful questions and 
learning something new to do 
with their machine. 

Instead of running with the 
crowd, Amiga owners are people 
who are interested in really 
getting something out of their 
computer. Instead of being 
swayed by the multi million 
dollar marketing campaigns from 
people who insist that you have 
to have "Intel Inside" to get 
ahead, they choose a machine 
which is powerful, cheap and has 
some of the best programs in the 
world on it. And who can argue 
with that? © 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995 



76 PUBLIC DOMAIN 



Welcome to PD World. This is the first 
edition of the year, but it's actually 
on the eve of something new and 
wonderful. Next Issue will be special and PD 
World will be playing a special part. Anyway I 
won't spoil the surprise, but let's Just say It's 
something big. Anyway back to the present. We 
have some excellent utilities this month. It has 
been quite nostalgic, as I've encountered a few 
of my favourite programs from times past. We've 
got the latest versions of Super view and 
SnoopDOS. We also have a review of an old 
favourite, JCGraph, by budding PD-reviewer 
Richard Munro (see opposite). 

SUPERVIEW V4.0 

KEW=II (V1175) 

When I bought my A1200 one of the first graphics 
utilities I found that made use of the AGA chipset 
was a tiny little program called SuperView. The 
thing that first impressed me was that while most 
programs only had partial support for the new 
modes, SuperView could display any resolution 
picture in any colour mode. 

As a result of the nostalgia brought on by 
these fond memories, I was hoping for something 
special. The most obvious improvement that has 
been made to the program is that it now has an 
interface. This consists of several command 
buttons and lists of available file formats and 
grabbable screens. 

If you merely wish to view a file you can click 
on the View File button. This will bring up a file 
requester that can be used to select the file for 
viewing. However, If you intend to convert or just 
save an image, you will need to load it in first, 
otherwise the image will be removed from memory 
as soon as the display is cancelled. The image 
can then be saved by selecting a file format and 
pressing the save button. 

At the moment the program has support for 
1FF-ILBM, IFF-ACBM, PCX, GIF and BMP files. 
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nostalgic on the eve of a new year and 
introduces PD new-comer Richard Munro. 



Copy, archive, view, run, clone, listen to and 
display files with AFCopy. 



ones included with this version are: IMG, MAC, 
Targa, TIFF, SunRaster and a couple C64 formats. 
You can also select and grab a screen from a list 
of currently active ones. You can choose between 
a disk-based file and clipboard objects by toggling 
the Medium button. 

Despite this broad selection of formats, I have 
not managed to load 24-bit IFFs or JPEGs 
successfully. This is obviously a great shame as 
these are probably the two most used formats. 1 
also encounter difficulties in displaying HAMS 
images correctly - the pictures often appeared 
smeared or garbled. 

On a more positive note, the program does 
have on-line help through an AmigaGuide 
document - you just press the help key and then 
click on the offending gadget. This will take you to 
the node of the document that deals with that 
topic. Once there, you can easily navigate the rest 
of the document. 

However, this is not enough to redeem the 
program's shortcomings or to relieve my 
disappointment. That's not to say that there is not 
great potential here. If the bugs are fixed this 
could be an indispensable toot, as it's easy to use 
and expandable. But at the moment it's too flaky 
for my liking. 

Program Rating 79% 

FLUMMY UTILS 

#1 
On-line PD 

Despite the very un-serious 

name, Flummy is actually a 

collection of serious PD 

programs - on the whole 

anyway. The disk's content 

is certainly varied; there 

are programs to make your 

day-to-day use of your 

computer easier, kill 

unpleasant viruses, reduce the amount of 

wear and tear on your hard drive and lots of 

other stuff too. 

• It could be you. You could win the national 
lottery, OK, so you may not stand much of a 
chance, but it could be you. However, you could try 
using the mighty computing power of your Amiga to 
increase your chances. How so? Well you could try 
a small program called the Lottery Number 
Generator. 

You are probably wondering how the program 
works. Weil, if doesn't go by mystical star signs or 
the birth days of cabinet members. Rather, it 
relies on random chance - whether or not this 
actually improves your chances I'm not sure. 
Surely a random value will stilt have odds of 1 out 




Uh, It's like a humourous Icon or something 
ah the wit of Amiga-users. 



of 50 million or whatever. 

Although I'm not a statistician, I expected some 
fancy maths - perhaps one or two complicated 
equations or perhaps a variant of a chaos theory. I 
don't know, maybe it might improve your chances - 
it will at least make your Amiga feel as if it's earning 
its keep. 

• If there is one thing that Amiga has no 
shortage of, it's file management utilities. I mean, 
you've got Directory Opus, SID and DirWork - 
we're spoilt for choice. Nevertheless the creators 
of AFCopy (nothing to do with the Future Publishing 
mag) have decided that there is room for one 
more, well three If you count 020 and 030 
optimised versions. 

The program's interface looks more than a 
little like the earlier versions of DirWork. There 
are two windows, both of which can be used as 
destination or source directories for copying or 
moving files or directories. Between these two 
windows you'll find a row of buttons. These can 
be used to perform a variety of tasks, such as 
viewing Images, reading or editing text files, 
extracting or adding an archive or entering a 
DOS command. 

The way these buttons work is quite simple, 
instead of including these features into the code 
of the program, it relies on 
external programs such as 
text-editors or picture 
viewers to perform those 
tasks. Although the 
program has its default 
tools you can change these 
to the programs you have 
installed on your machine. 

Underneath each 
window you'll find its Devs 
buttons. These are the 
buttons that correspond to 
different Dev units such as 
DFO: and DH1:. 

Overall, this product is nothing remarkable, 
but it is a good solid program that is easy to use 
and relatively flexible. If you are looking for a 
flexible file-managing utility, but can't afford 
Directory Opus you would be well-advised to check 
AFCopy out. 

• Now here's a interesting inclusion - an icon. 
That's right, just an icon. However, it does have a 
little Intel outside logo on it. As if that wasn't 
enough, if you click on this icon it will change to a 
logo that reads Motorola inside. Uh, like wow.,, or 
something. 

• VCKiller is a viruskiller with but a single 
purpose in life - to eradicate alt traces of the 
Commander virus. What this virus has done to 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



PUBLIC DOMAIN 77 



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Munro, prolific letter-writer 
and budding PD-revlewer - he Is 
our first winner of "I want To Be 
Star". He'll be getting some cash, 
or something, not to mention 
seeing his review in print. If you 
think you have got what it takes to 
become a star check the boxout 
on page 86. 

JCGRAPH 

Fish Disk 926 

This program 
was originally 
released as 
shareware 
back in April 
1992, but in 
August 1993 
the author sadly decided that the 
Amiga market would not support 
him, and decided to discontinue 
development of JCGraph. However, 
this is stilt, as far as I know, the 
only Amiga-program capable of 
generating all manner of graphs, 
and, most importantly, saving them 
in a variety of scalable formats. 

The program's biggest failing is 
immediately apparent on loading - 
the program accepts as input only 




ASCII text files created by the user 
in a text editor, and there is no 
provision for entering data from 
within the program. 

A quick delve into the above 
average documentation reveals the 
file format, and one detailed step- 
by-step example. The file format is 
actually quite simple, being really 
only the raw data plus a few other 
pieces of data. The example is an 
excellent way of getting to grips with 
"writing" your own graphs. 

Once you have successfully 
loaded your data into the program 
you have the choice of 26 pre- 
defined graph types, which can also 
be added to by the user, since they 
are loaded in as separate modules 
(this file format is also included in 
the doc file, but is rather more 
involved). Some of these are rather 
more useful than others, but all the 
basic 2D & 3D styles are there. 

After selecting your graph type, 
it is possible to rotate the quick 
preview of the graph through all 
three axes using three sliders in the 
control window. Other options 
include varying the perspective, 
changing the font size for each axis' 
legend independently, and altering 



the palette of the finished graph. 

Once finished, hit the render 
button and your graph will be 
generated. The time taken for this 
is perfectly acceptable, even the 
most complex graphs taking well 
under 30s on a 25MHz '030. The 
program also generates the legend 
for the graph, although this will only 
be saved in EPS & 3D-GEO formats. 

The program's major selling 
point, however, must be its output 
formats. Of course it supports the 
ubiquitous IFF-ILBM bitmap format, 
allowing the use of JCGraph 's 
output in virtually any Amiga 
program ever; more interesting are 
the scalable output formats. These 
allow the graph to be scaled to any 
size within the word processor or 
DTP package with no loss of quality, 
and still be output at your printers 
maximum resolution. 

The formats supported include 
3D-GEO, AegisDraw2000 and both 
colour and b&w EPS. This 
comprehensive list makes scalable 
output compatible with many Amiga 
WP and DTP programs, including 
Final Writer, Wordworth 3, 
Professional Page and Pagestream. 

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cool 3D graph-drawing program. 

was disappointing, since the 
program seemed to simply do a 
screen dump, thus generating 
jaggies that do not appear when the 
graph is saved as a scalable file 
and then printed from within Final 
Writer, for instance. 

On the whole, JCGraph proved 
to be very stable, and is capable of 
producing excellent quality results 
worthy of any similar program on 
the PC or Mac, and unique on the 
Amiga. Apart from the necessity of 
creating data in a text editor, the 
program is actually very user- 
friendly, and the results are well 
worth the effort. 

Program rating 90% 



instill such hatred I'm not sure - maybe it killed 
VCKiller's family or ran off with its girlfriend - but, 
whatever the reason it is certainly a commendable 
course of action. 

• WBFIash 2.1 is a tiny Wb2.0+ program that 
does some odd things with your Workbench 
screen. Don't worry, nothing too sordid; it simply 
cycles through a range of colours. It can either 
replace the backdrop or active Workbench colours 
with this range of colours. To be honest, it all 
sounded a bit daft and pointless to me at first, but 
it is oddly soothing especially If it is restricted to 
Workbench's active colour. 

• Those among you who have good hearing 
will have noticed that hard drives keep spinning 
even when it is not being accessed. This probably 
shortens your drive's life-span and certainly ruins 
your sleep if you leave your Amiga rendering in 
your bedroom overnight, HDOff is a program that 
puts a stop to this needless spinning of hard 
drives. The program works by turning your drive off 
after a specified period of inactivity. 



While this collection does not contain any jaw- 
droppingly good programs, it does have some 
useful ones. However, it does have more than its 
fair share of useless ones and just plain odd 
programs. If you are looking for a file manager you 
might find this collection useful - if not, then you 
would do well to stay away from it. 

Product Rating 76% 

WB2-3 UTILS-SYSTEM 

KEW=II (U1123) 

There are certainly plenty of Workbench 2 and 3 
utility collections floating around at the moment. 
These have tended, on the whole, to be collections 
of lots of small programs. However, this collection 
only has five programs - LastAlert2, SIP, 
SnoopDOS 3, Sysinfo and SystemGuide. 

• The are certain programs that every serious 
Amiga-owner has on his or her hard drive or floppy 
disk collection. SnoopDOS is just such a program. 
It's particularly useful to me when trying to review 
PD programs that don't work properly. SnoopDOS 




The latest incarnation SnoopDOS Is Just as 
Indispensable as Its predecessor. 



Sysinfo Is another old favourite. It's particularly 
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Oh the mysteries of the Amiga's system files. At 
last there is a guide to help you. 

can be used to keep track of what your Amiga is 
up to. It monitors all system activity, so if a 
program fails to run because it couldn't find a file 
you can find out where the file should be. 

The latest version of this indispensable tool 
has had quite a face-lift and several new options. 
Earlier versions would simply open a window that 
displayed what calls were made by which programs 
to Amiga system. The same information is 
display by version 3, but you can do more than 
simply enable or disable the program's snooping, 

SnoopDOS 3.0 has a full interface you can 
use to hide, pause, disable or quit the program by 
clicking on the corresponding button. There are 
also buttons to open a log file, change the 
program's setup and its list of functions. 
Further options can also be set through several 
pull-down menus. 

As with previous versions of the program you 
must simply have this program, if only to avoid 
being branded an ill-equipped Amiga-user. 

• Sysinfo is another long-time favourite of 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



78 PUBLIC DOMAIN 



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Last Alert 2 Is a particularly useful program - it 
takes note of your last guru. 



ANOTHER CHANCE 
TO BECOME A STAR! 

If you have discovered a PD or shareware 
that you have become totally enamoured 
with, write in and tell us about. But, don't 
stop there if you would like to see your name 
in print. We want you to send In a small 
review of one of your favourite new PD 
package. 

We don't care what type of program it is, 
as long as it's good and you can justify its 
excellence. But, please, please, no reviews 
of SwimSuit Chic 58 or similar slldeshows - 
just serious reviews of serious products for 
serious readers. 

If that's not enough, we'll even pay you 
If it's a really well written review! 

Send your review as an ASCII text 
document, along with a copy of the 
program, to: 

I WANT TO BE A STAR 

Graeme Sandiford, 

Amiga Shopper, 30 Monmouth St, 

Bath, BA1 2BW. 



Amiga-users. It's a program that can teli you all 
sorts of interesting things about your Amiga 
and then compare it with other models. This is 
useful for more than simply giving you an excuse 
to poke your tongue out at a friend and say, "my 
Amiga is faster than yours, so there". It can be 
useful when you are trying to get advice or help 
with your machine. 

As well as performing benchmarks to 
determine the speed of your machine, it can also 
provide information about which Workbench 
tasks are being used and the status of any 
expansion units that are currently in use. When 
calculating the speed of your machine Sysinfo only 
uses one benchmark, opposed to the several used 
by programs like AIBB. Using several benchmarks 
will give you a more precise idea of the speed of 
your setup. 

Sysinfo is still a handy program to have around 
and is still on my hard drive after all these years. 
However, if you are after more accurate 
information on the ability of your machine you are 
better off getting AIBB. 

• SIP, or, to give it its full name, System 
Information Program, might be considered a 
pretender to SnoopDOS' position as the premiere 
system monitor. Indeed, there are several 
similarities in the program's appearances as well 
as the functions they perform. 



Actually, a more exact description would be a 
combination of SnoopDOS and ARTM. Unlike 
SnoopDOS, SIP can not only trace libraries 
and screens, it can also remove them. So you 
can freely remove libraries or close down program 
ports and screens. I guess the wisdom of 
this ability relies heavily on your knowledge 
and experience. 

At first SIP seems to be an improvement on 
SnoopDOS, as it has quite a few more features 
and even has on-line help. However, after using 
the program for a while, I discovered that SIP is 
not one of the most reliable programs around. 
Occasionally the program would crash the office 
1200, particularly when checking which handlers 
are in use. If it weren't for this failing I think I 
would prefer SIP over SnoopDOS, as it is 
the program is still useful as the problem is 
intermittent. 

• If all this talk about handlers, libraries 
and memory vectors has got you all excited and 
begging to find out more about the secret life of 
your Amiga, then you may find SystemGuide of 
interest. SystemGuide is a self-proclaimed 
comprehensive reference guide to Amiga 
software system files. It is an AmigaGuide 
format document, so you can easily move from 
topic to topic. 

The contents of this guide is divided up into 
four main headings: Devices, Filesystems, 
Handlers and Libraries. Also if you get a little 
confused, or are unused to guide documents, you 
can get help or use the tutor section of the 
document. The guide is not so much an in-depth 
explanation of how libraries and devices work, 
rather it's more of a catalogue of known Amiga 
system files. This catalogue can be especially 
useful if you have a program that needs a 
particular file to run. 

Clicking on any of the four main headings will 
take you to a list several pages long for the type of 
files you have selected. Clicking on an entry in a 
list will bring up information about that file. This 
information will include a general description and, 
if available, the name of the supplier. If there is a 
similar or related file 
you will be able to click 
on a node that will take 
you to the 
corresponding entry. 

The guide really is 
comprehensive - it 
includes 67 Devices, 11 
Filesystems, 72 
Handlers and 403 (yes 
403!) Libraries. It's 
certainly one of the 
most interesting 
applications of the 
AmigaGuide format that 
I've seen for some time. 




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s'twinusiaii .: ■■,.{■■.■■■■.. 



ntSINrlEftS TG Bfll5fl6PS 

He one could possibly argue that the Rniga'i Norkbenth is 
Ln [lor pftu area , especial ly when Lcaspared to H1NP systefi on the PC's aid Hki 
of this world, bat It won't lot you do everything, Sure, too Workbench 
prnoides a nice and easy nethed of carrying out those djy to day {wonting 
(hares such is fornatting disks, copying files etc, but if you wont to 
realty get noun hands dirty, you haed to set to drips with too tinigaHIS 
she IE envir-oment. 

hi your shilts with the Sniga begin to develop, vou' LI gradually 
find thai the Workbench [ft just ton slnplp to handle everv task that vow 

Even the ultra-pewerful version of workbench bundled with all 
Fnigas since the release of the fil2uw won't Lot you dn everything, 
(deinodure's software engineers knew this tee which is why the taiga also 
supports another nethnd of controlling your It's operation - the fkiigaoOS 
Shall, The Shell provides van with a slnple nethod of accessing the power 
of the finigo's Disk Operating Sytttn IftnigapttSij the part of the Uniga's 
low level operating systen (the Futiga 'brain'. If you like) that is solely 
responsible for handling disk drives. BnlgaDHS doesn't run prograni - It 



Workbench intra can tell you all you to know 
about Workbench and AmlgaDOS. 



If you are new to the Amiga and would like to know 
just which files you need on system and why, then 
you should definitely have a read of this document. 

• If there is one thing that is guaranteed to 
turn even the most sane Amiga-user into an 
irrational, salivating wild beast it's a system crash. 
When this happens it's a good idea to make a 
note of the guru number that is flashed on screen. 
Unfortunately the average human is unlikely to be 
in a state of mind that will facilitate the execution 
of such a complex action. During these moments 
of debilitating rage you will certainly benefit from a 
program like LastAlert2. 

LastAlert2 is a Wb2+ program that will record 



the last message displayed by your machine. This 
will give you the opportunity to take note of this 
number while you are in a more... chemically 
balanced state-of-mind. 

When I first tested the program on a 3.1 
A1500, by doing 'naughty things' with SIP, I found 
that the program simply froze the machine when a 
crash occurred. However, the program worked fine 
on an A12O0, and is definitely a program that will 
stay in my Wbstarfup draw. 

Although some of the programs' functions 
overlap slightly this is an extremely useful 
collection. This is an especially good collection 
for intermediate users who would like to get 
more out of their systems and indulge in a bit 
problem solving. 

Product Rating 37% 

INTRODUCING WORKBENCH 
AND AMIGADOS 

Fl Licenceware (Fl-05) £4.99 

So you have just bought your 
first Amiga, or have just 
emerged from the typical two- 
month games playing stage. 
The first thing you are going 
to want to do, if you intend 
use your Amiga seriously, is 
learn how to use Workbench and, if you are a little 
more adventurous, perhaps AmlgaDOS too. 
Trouble is, that although the Amiga's manuals are 
quite good compared with other computing 
platforms, it is still hard work finding out exactly 
how the Amiga's operating system works. 

Introducing Workbench and Amiga DOS is a 
Wb2+ two-disk licenceware package that sets out 
to help you get to grips with this excellent 
operating system. The program takes an inventive 
approach to this task, which is so simple and 
natural that I am surprised nobody thought of it 
before. It creates a pseudo Workbench 
environment, which has all the system files 
and menu items as Workbench. However clicking 
on these files will present you with an 
AmigaGuide document that explains what the file 
— 51 or item does and how it 
should be used. 

This is a great teaching 
method as you can freely 
learn about things you 
don't understand. As the 
training is effectively done 
in situ you are more likely 
to remember what you 
learn. If you want to learn 
about a menu item you 
first need to click on a 
small at the top of your 
screen and then pull-down 
the menu you are 
interested in. This is a 
simple system that anybody, even absolute 
beginners, can use effectively. 

Thankfully the explanations do not take a plain 
this-does-that-and-that-does-this approach to its 
explanations. Rather it gives plenty of background 
information and gives practical examples of how 
the files can be used. The text is written in a 
manner that is both informative and easy to read, 
there's also a bit of humour sprinkled around for 
good measure. 

So what does it cover? In short, pretty much 
everything. The disks contain most of system files 
you will find on your Workbench disk as well as 
your Extras disk. In addition to this there is a FAQ 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



PUBLIC DOMAIN 79 



(Frequently Asked Questions) section and 
documents devoted to setting-up printers and 
adding ToolTypes. 

In conclusion, this system would appear to be 
the ideal way to (earn about the Amiga's operating 
system, it readily provides information for the 
curious and help with common problems. However, 
some people might feel that £5 is a bit much for a 
document, but a lot of research has gone into this 
and it is well written. 

Product Rating 90% 

GENEREXXT PRO 

Ahmed Balfahih 

Now this program has come a 
long way- I mean physically 
come a long way. In fact, it's 
come all the way from 
Malaysia (although I would 
have gladly picked it up 
personally). 
It's a shareware Arexx generator that can 
perform a variety of tasks. As it relies on ARexx 
you'll need Workbench 2 or higher and at least 
version 2.3 of ADPro. The registered version of the 
program also has support for MorphPlus' features 
and several functions that can be utilised by 
owners of the scrummy PAR card. 

The programmer believes that this is the most 
attractive Arexx generator for ADPro, and I must 
agree with him. The program seems to have 
been written using Can Do and has a nice 
professional look to ft. 

The interface gives you access to all of 
AD Pro's features and some of its own. It also 
has a useful on-line help facility that can be 
accessed as either a text help file or a point-and- 
click system. 




Along the bottom of the screen are the tool 
icons that can be used to set a variety of 
preferences and perform several tasks. The same 
functions can be accessed via pull-down menus. 
Above the icons you'll find the Program window 
which can be used to display and edit scripts, it 
can be used in much the same way as a text 
editor as it has cut and paste functions too. 

Above this is the List window which contains a 
list of the files that you wish to operate on. You 
can create new lists by selecting directories that 
contain picture files - don't worry, the program can 
tell the difference between pictures and non-image 
files and will oniy list appropriate files. You can 
also insert and order more than one list. 

The Operators window contains a list of 
available operators. You can have several lists 
and can also toggle through them. To the right of 
these two windows are the Generate, Preview, 
Run and Exit buttons. Exit obviously quits the 
program. Generate will generate the script, 
Preview will provide you with a preview and Run 
will run the script. 

This is a truly impressive example of what can 
be done with a package like CanDO on the Amiga. 
The program is easy to use, powerful and, for a 
registration fee of $20, excellent value. If you 
would like to get hold of a copy of this program 
then look no further than this month's 
Subscribers' disk or contact; 
Ahmed Balfakih 
Click Graflx 
Kiara Park 168-13/5 
Jalan Burhanuddln Hulmi 
Taman Tun Dr. Ismail 
60000 Kuala Lumpur 
Malaysia. 

Product Rating 91% © 



GET IN TOUCH 

If you have discovered, or written, any PD, 
shareware or license ware that you feel Is 
pretty special, then please send it In for 
review. If you are a shareware author, please 
send in the registered version of the program. 

Also, If you have any suggestions or 
comments about this section of the magazine, 
please write to: 

Graeme Sandiford 
Amiga Shopper 
30 Monmouth Street, 
Bath BA1 2BW 



GET TO THE TOP IN 
THE PD CHARTS 

If you run a PD library and would to tell the 
world about all the wonderful goodies that are 
simply bursting out of your disk boxes, send in 
a list of your top ten utilities and animations. 
In every issue we Include the chart below 
to give our readers the opportunity to find out 
which products are popular with their fellow 
readers. If you want to tell us what your top- 
ten PD list looks like, write to: 

Graeme Sandiford 
Amiga Shopper 
30 Monmouth Street, 
Bath BA1 2BW 



TOP TEN PD CHART - IT'S THE ONLY CHART THAT COUNTS 



This month we continue our quest to keep you up-to-date with the most 
popular PD at the moment. We give you a list of the top ten programs 



Saddle Tramps PD » 0709 888 127 



Relokick vl.41 



SnoopDOS 3 



Adress Print V4 



ST Utilities 2 



Filthy Lucre 



Amiga Help 3 



Virus Workbench V4 



DBase Collection 



Viewtek V2.1 



DMS Kit 



1 Lower Mill Close, Goldthorpe, Rotherham. 
South Yorkshire, S63 9BY. 



and disks that have been ordered from two PD libraries. It gives you a 
chance to see which programs are popular with your fellow Amiga-users. 



A1200 Only PD 



Image Studio V1.01 AGA 



Blackboard AGA V1.0 



Magic WB 



Magic WB Extras 



Morphy The Magic Man (AGA) +HD 



Mand 2000D AGA 



Ben's AGA Tools Vol.2 



PPShow 4.0 



Aktion Replay Pro & DMS2 



Spectrum Emulator AGA 



23 Barn Way, Cirencester, Glos, GL7 2LY 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



PUBLIC DOMAIN 



17 Bit Software. 1st floor Offices. 2-B 
Market Street. Wakefield. West 
Yorkshire, WFI |DH. Telephone (0924} 
3669S2, Fax (0924) 200943. 
Catalogue .50p or free if you send an 
SAE. Accept phone orders, credit cards 
and direct debit. Open Sam-Spm 
Mon-Thur, 9am-5.30pm Frl-Sat 
A%200 Only PD - BJ Cowdall, 23 Barn 
Way, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 
2LY. Try to obtain all AGA PD and WB3 
utils etc. Catalogue is £ 1.00 or send a 
disk and en SAE. No phone orders or 
credit cards. For a printed catalogue 
just send an SAE. Disks are £l r 00 
each. Frequent special offersl 
Active Software, PO Box 151, 
Darlington. County Durham DL3 S-YT. 
Telephone & Fax (0325) 352 260, 
EMail Bux8@Lnn.ac.uk. Specialise in 
professional collections, compile disk 
packs, essentia! Amlnet compilations 
and sound samples. Catalogue Is 50p, 
Mo phone orders, no credit cards or 
direct debit- Open 9am-9pm. 
Discounts to User Group members. 
Activity Software, 393 Doncester 
Road., Rctherham, Soutti Yorkshire, 
S65 2UF. Telephone (0709) 377730. 
Catalogue 1st class stamp. Do not 
accept phone orders, credit cards or 
direct debit. Open from 9am - 5.30pm 
Mon to Sat. Additional info, aLso stock 
PC Shareware. Crazy Joe's, 141 
Effingham Street, Rotfierham. 
AGA Exchange, 13 BrownshfEl, 
Cromer, Norwich, Norfolk, NR27 GQA. 
specialist areas: AG A PD/Shareware 
full advice service, PD exchanges, 
Laser printing service. Catalogue free 
(with s.a.e. + disk). No phone orders, 
credit cards or direct debit. Half price 
membership (£4.50) until 1/11/94, 
AmICom PO, 22 Church View Close, 
Havercroft, Wakefield, WF4 2PH, 
Catalogue .50p. Do not accept phone 
orders, credit cards or direct debit. 
Amiganuta, 3 Spring Road, Bitterne, 
Southampton, Hampshire, SO 19 2BH. 
Specialist areas: Ace, Accm, Words 4, 
general software and titles produced ■ 
by M. Meany. Catalogue, .50p + s.a.e . 
Do not accept phone orders, credit 
cards or direct debit. Open 24 hours a 
day, 7 days a week. New ownership. 
AnglJa PD, 30 Victoria Steel, 
Felixstowe, iPll 7EW, Telephone 
(0394) 283494. Catalogue 70p, 
Accept phone orders, credit cards and 
direct debit. Open 9am - 5.30pm. 
Aiilm 1 PD, PO Bo* 128, West Mailing, 
Kent, ME19 6UA. Telephone none. 
Specialise in Animation graphics. 
Catalogue cost .60p. No: phone 
orders.credlt cards,direct debit. 
Asgard Software, 20 Langdale Drive, 
Flanshaw, Wakefield, W Yorks WF2 
9EW. Tetephone (0924) 363 059. 
Specialise In all types of Amiga PD 
(appro*. 4,000 disks in library). 
Catalogue is £1.00. No phone orders, 
no credit cards or direct debit. Open 
24 hours, 

Barkln Mad, 18 Rhyfaer Avenue, 
Lanark. Lanarkshire, ML11 7AL. 
Telephone (0555) 663530. Catalogue 
FREE when sending a s.a,e, and/or 
disk. Accept phone orders. Do not 
accept credit cards or direct debit. 
Open 24 hours ■ 7 days. We fully 
encourage swapping PD as well as 
selling to try to spread good quality PD 
as far es possible. 
Beats Brothers PD, 6 Brownings 
Close, Pennington, Lymlnglon, 
Hampshire. S041 SGX. Specialist 
areas: Amiga games and utilities. 
Catalogue £1.00 inc P&P. Do not 
accept phone orders, credit cards or 
direct debit- The catalogue disk will be 
released in August 1994. 
Belshaw's Computers, 55 Bafderton 
Gate, Newark, Notts. Telephone and 
Fax (0636) 72503. Catalogue FREE. 
Accept phone orders. Do not accept 
credit cards or direct debit. Open 
9.30am to 5.30pm. Retail outlet* 
customers can call at shop, 
BGPD, 6 Peter Sleet, Whitehaven, 
Cumbria, CA2B 7Q8. Specialist areas: 
I can supply any title reviewed in any 
Amiga magazine. I always have the 
latest assassin collections. Catalogue 
,50p or send a blank disk. Do not 



accept phone orders, credit cards or 
direct debit. I can also supply many 
second hand (commercial) games + 
utilities, and I can provide a PD 
document printing service. 
Blitz basic PD, 30 Riding Dene, 
Mickley, Northumberland, NE43 7DL 
Specialise in Blitz Basic created PD. 
Catalogue is £1.50. Open 9am-5pm. 
Orders processed within 48 hrs. Also 
produce a diskmag for Bliz users. 
Chrlsa PD, 22 Merryfields Avenue, 
Hockley, Esses, SS5 5AL Telephone 
(0702) 203826. Chris's PD disk 
catalogue .70p P 2 disk Fred Fish 
catalogue £1.40, both Chris's PD & 
Fred Fish disk catalogues £2.00 or 
Free if you send s.a.e. with sufficient 
disks. Do not accept phone orders, 
credit cards or direct debit. Open 6pm- 
8pm Weekdays, 10am-4pm Saturdays. 
All disks are virus free & error free. All 
disks only .80p each, 
CAM-PD, 26 Crowland Way, North 
Arbury, Cambridge CB4 2NA, 
Club 1200, 57 Europa Rd, Lowestoft, 
Suffolk NR32 4BQ, Telephone (0836) 
323 253. Specialise in AGA and W33 
only, catalogue is £1.00. No phone 
orders, no credit cards or direct debit. 
Open 9am-7pm Mon Fri. One disk 
free for every five bought. 
CPU Computer PD Library, 120 High 
Street, Chatham, ME4 4BY, Tel + Fax: 
0634 826 21S. Catalogue cost £1,00. 
Open 9.30anrr-5pm Mon^Sat 
Crafc Holmes Non-Proflt PD, 23 
Rocester Avenue, Wednesfleld, 
Wotoerharnpton, West Midlands, WV11 
3AU. Telephone (0902) 305209. 
Specialist areas: latest virus checkers. 
Catalogue, free listing upon request. 
Do not accept phone orders, credit 
cards or direct debit. Open, mail order 
only - but phone enquiries 9am-8pm, 7 
days a week. Additional info, all discs 
£1,75 inc p&p. Bulletin board 
available on Sunday 2pm-5pm only, 
Cyimtic, Office 01, Little Heath 
Industrial Estate. Old Church Road, 
Coventry, CVG 7NB. Telephone (0303) 
681687, Fax (0203) 63S508. 
Specialist areas: all latest demos, 
comprehensive utility section and 
complete coverage of the PD 
spectrum. Catalogue nil for paper, 
£1,00 for catalogue disk. Do not 
accept phone orders but will within 6 
months. Do not accept credit cards or 
direct debit. Open 10am 6pm. We 
offer total product support, plus we 
can advise on any Amiga problem. 
Dead Budgie PD, 53 East Street, 
Ashburton, devon TQ13 7AQ. 70p for 
two disks. Don't accept phone orders, 
nor credit cards or direct debit. They 
accept postal orders or cash - cash is 
sent at your own risk however. 
Deck The Ripper of NFA PD, ITS 
Trevind Drive, Rushey Mead, Leicester 
LE4 7TR. Telephone (0533) 661 610, 
NFA productions are setting up 3 
network of PD houses across the UK 
in an effort to get PD to the public as 
cheaply as possible. 
Epic Marketing, Victoria Centre, 139 - 
139 Victoria Road, Swindon, Wiltshire. 
SN2 3BU. Telephone (0793) 4909SS, 
Fan (0793) 514187. Specialists areas, 
desktop video fonts and tutorials. 
Catalogue £1.00. Accept phone orders 
and credit cards. Open 9.30am - 
5.30pm Mon to Sat. 
Essex computer systems, Freepost 
CL2875. Southminster, Essex, CMO 
7BR. Telephone (0621) 77S778, 
Specialise in Ltcenceware (central 
llcenceware register C.L.R. organiser). 
Catalogue FREE. Phone orders 
accepted. Accept credit cards/direct 
debit. Open 10am - 6pm Mon to Fri. 
Members of the Professional 
standards for software distribution. 
Eurodtek PD, 71 Phlllimore Place, 
Rsdlett, Herts WD7 8NJ, Catalogue 
cost £1.00 (free if disk + SAE is end), 
Fl - Ucer»eware, 31 Wellington Rd, 
St Thomas, Exeter, Devon EX2 9DU. 
Telephone (0392) 493 580. Catalogue 
is 50p. No phone orders, no credit 
cards. Open 9am-9pm, 
Fantasia PD, 40 Bright Street, 
Gorsehill, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 
6BU. Telephone (0793) 610134. 



Specialist areas: Slldeshows, 3D 
rendered Images (jpeg) serious 
software. Catalogue ,70p + ,40p P&P 
or blank disk + S.A.E. Accept phone 
orders. Do not accept credit cards or 
direct debit. Open 24 hours. We are a 
non profit PD house with all proceeds 
going back into the PD house, 
Flvt^Star PD, 48 Nemesai, Amington, 
Tamworth, B77 4EL U.K. Telephone 
(0827)68496. Specialist areas: 
education utilities, DTP games. 
Catalogue 70p + Free P&P. Do not 
accept phone orders, credit cards or 
direct debit. Open 9am 2pm 7 days 
a week. All disks .99p + Free disk 
when buy 10 or more. 
GD PD, 99 Turnberry Rd, Great Barr, 
Birmingham B42 2HP. 
a.m - PD, 43 Badger Close, 
Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 2TE. 
Telephone (0831) 6493SS, Fax (0628) 
36020, Specialist areas: all types. 
Catalogue 3 * 1st class stamps. Do 
not accept phone orders, credrt cards 
or direct debit Open 9am to 7pm. All 
disks £1.00 inc p&p with a valid 
account number, first disk £1.50. 
GD PO, 99 Turnberry Rd. Great Barr, 
Birmingham B42 2HP. 
GotMk, 7 Denmark Road. 
Northampton, NN1 5QR, Telephone 
(0604) 22456. Specialist areas: Blitz 
Basic 2 programming + PD. Do not 
accept phone orders, credit 
cards/direct debit. Open Sat 10am to 
5pm. We were Batty' s PD Club, but 
are now concentrating on Blitz Basic 2 
users. 

Homneoft PD. 0, Home, 23 Stanwell 
Close, Wlncobank, Sheffield, 59 1PZ, 
Telephone (0742) 492950, Specialist 
areas: Amiga PD over 11000 disks, 
CD ROMS. Catalogue, Free it a s.a.e, 
+ disk are sent. Do not accept phone 
orders, credit cards or direct debit. 
Open from 9am tlH 6prn. 
ICPUG (Independent Commodore 
Products Users Group). 45 
Brookscrott, Lindon Glade, Croydon, 
CRO 9MA. Telephone OSl/651/5436, 
Fa* 081/661/3428. 
Immediate Arts, 26 Lyndhurst 
Gardens, Glasgow, G20 6QY. 
Telephone 041/946/5798, Catalogue, 
catalogue disk £1.00 (p&p inc). Do not 
accept phone orders, credeit cards or 
direct debit- Open 9am to 6pm. 
JJPD, 43 Bewick Drive, Bakersfieid, 
Nottingham NG3 7G8. Tel: 0602 877 
523, Specialise In utilities. Catalogue 
cost 75p inc. P+P, Open Mon-Sun 
9,30-4.30. All PD 99p. Hardware also 
available. Special members discount 
scheme. 

KEW ■ II Software, PO, Box Mo 672, 
South Croydon, Surrey, CR2 9YS. 
Telephone 081/657/1617. Specialist 
areas: utilities, quality PD & 
Shareware, system functions. 
Catalogue, Introduction pack inc disk 
£1-00, Accept phone orders. No credit 
cards or direct debit. Open from Sam - 
8pm. Full disks pick your own HEes 
500 K=Bootable 800 K=Unbootable. 
Magnetic Fields Shareware and 
Public Domain Software, PO Box 118, 
Preston, Lancashire, PR2 2AW. 
Telephone and Fax, (0772) 881190. 
Accept phone orders, credit cards and 
direct debit. Open 9am to 5pm Mon to 
Fri. We also do PC -h ST. 
MegaSoft, 78 Bockingham Green, 
Basildon, Essex, SS13 1PF. Telephone 
(0268) 559164, Catalogue, send two 
blank disks + Stamps. Accept phone 
orders through Megasoft membership 
codes. Do not accept credit cards or 
direct debit- Open SamKLlpm 
everyday. Over 1500 disks. You name 
it we stock it, £1,20 per disk. 
MicraJand Bulletin Board, PO Box 13, 
Aldershot, GU12 6YX. Telephone and 
Fax (0252) 25841. Specialist areas 
Internet. Catalogue, only available 
online. Do not accept phone orders, 
credit cards/direct debit. Open 24 hrs. 
HM.S. 1 Chain Lane, Newport, I of W, 
PO30 5QA. Telephone (0983) 529594, 
Fax (0983) 821599. Specialist areas: 
PD, CLR Licence-ware, Commercial 
Software, Manga Video. Cataloge FREE 
with S.A.E. Accept phone orders, credit 
cards and direct debit. Open office 



hrs. 



0, R, Monks, P.O.Box 42, 
Grimsby, South Humberside, DN33 
1RV. Specialists areas, The PD house 
is currently A12O0 orientated, NON- 
AGA titles are available If they work en 
an A1200, Catalogue disk + s.a.e. Do 
not accept phone orders, credit cards 
or direct debit. Orders usually 
dispatched same day. Catalogue disk 
uses point and click and saves orders 
to disk, also totals order with lOfcoff 
orders £1000 or more. Prices £1.00 
per disk Inc p&p, 3 disk titles (e.g 
Grapevine 19) £2,80 
Nemesis PD, 126 Mallard Hill, 
Bedford, MK41 7QT. Tel: 0234 350 
654. SAE for catalogue. Also User 
Group. 

Numero Uno, 21 Burstall Hill, 
Bridlington, North Humberslde, Y016 
5NP. Telephone (0262) 671125. 
Specialise in a lot of A1200 stuff - 
beginners welcome. Catalogue costs a 
blank disk or 1st class stamp. Phone 
orders accepted buyer collects. Do not 
accept credit cards/direct debit. Open 
4- 10pm on Wednesdays, 9am - 1pm 
+ 6.30am - 10pm on school holidays 
& weekends. 75p a disk, 50p p+p. 
Online PD, 1 The Cloisters, Hals-all 
Lane, Formby, Liverpool L37 3PX, 
Telephone (0704) 834 335, Fax: 
(0704) 834 583 (phone voice line 
first) BBS: (0704) 334 583. Specialise 
In demos. Catalogue is 50p, They 
accept phone orders and Visa, Access, 
Mastercard and Eurocard. Open 
Mon-Sat 9am-6pm. 
Gdon PO, Mr Modarne, 14 Ouston 
Close, Wardley, Gateshead, NE10 
8D2. Telephone 091/438/5021, 
Paul Bwtteridge PD, 25 Cunningham 
Crescent, Bournemouth, Dorset BH11 
SDN, Free catalogue. 
Pathfinder PD, 41 Marion Street, 
8lngley, West Yorkshire, BD16 4N0- 
Telephone (0274) 565205. Catalogue, 
Free if a s.a.e. is sent. Do net accept 
phone orders, credit cards or direct 
debit Open 9.30am - 5pm. We have 
our 6,000 titles in our library and also 
our PC shareware. 

PO Soft, 1 Bryant Avenue, Southend- 
on-Sea, Essex, SSI 2VD. Telephone 
(0702) 466933, Fax (0702) 617123. 
Specialist areas: Utilities and games. 
Catalogue Free. Accept phone orders, 
credit cards and direct debit. Open 
9am-7pm (Mon-Sat), PC+Amiga + CD. 
Penguin Public Domain, P,0> Box 179, 
Reading, Berkshire, RG3 3DD. 
Telephone none. Specialist areas Fred 
Fish and all other areas. Catalogue 
free but stamps appreciated. Do not 
accept phone orders, credit cards or 
direct debit. Postal only. All machines 
catered for 500/500+/600/1200, 
Phils 'Aga' PD, 101 Grove Read, 
Qosport, Hampshire, P012 411. 
Specialist areas: k Aga' based Amiga 
cnty. Catalogue send SAE. Do not 
accept phone orders, credit cards or 
direct debit. Open for mail order only. 
PO is 50p a disk. 
Pinnacle PD, 134 Buarth-y-Capel, 
Ynysybwl Pontypridd, Mid Glam. CF37 
3PA. Telephone (0443) 790996. 
Catalogue, disk £1.00 Inc p&p. 
Prenrtet PD, 45 Fairfield Gardens, 
Eastwood, Lelgh-onrSea, Essex SS9 
5S0. Tel: 0702 520 520. Offer a 
broad range, especially Comms s/w. 
Accept phorve orders, but no credit 
cards. Open 4pm-9pm weekdays, 
9am-5pm weekends. 
Rlverdene PDL, 30A School Road, 
Tllehurst, Reeding, Berkshire, RG3 
SAN, Telephone (0734) 452416, Fax 
(0734) 451239. Specialist areas: 
Video applications. Catalogue £1.00. 
Accept phone orders, credit cards and 
direct debit. Open 9am to 5. 30pm, (24 
hour answerphone). Est. since 1987. 
Roberta Smith DTP, 190 Falloden 
Way, London, NW11 6JE. Telephone 
0S1/4 55/1626. Specialist areas: 
utilities, education, animation. 
Catalogue .50p + ,50p p&p or a blank 
disk + S.SAE. Accept mall order by 
return of post. Do not accept credit 
cards or direct debit. Open from 10am- 
6pm Mon to Fri, 9am-12,30pm Sat. 
We have a strong leaning to desk top 



media publishing. 

Saddle Tramps PD, 1 Lower Mill 

Close, Goldthorpe, Rotherham, South 
Yorkshire S63 9 BY, Telephone (0709) 
SSS 127. Catalogue is 50p. Accept 
phone orders, but no credit cards or 
direct debit. Open all day, every day. 
New library, first catalogue disk, 
expanding daily. Stock small items, ie. 
boxes, mats, labels etc. 
Scribble PD, 2 Hillside Cottages, 
Burstall, Suffolk. Telephone 
(0473)652588. Catalogue £1.00, 
Accept phone enquiries only. Dp not 
accept credit cards or direct debit. 
Open from 09.30am - 5.30pm. Any 
PD/Shareware title can be ordered at 
no extra cost. 

Seasoft Computing, The Business 
Centre, 30 Woodlands Ave, 
Rustlngton, Sussex, BN16 3EY, 
Telephone (0903) 850378, 
Specialises in Amiga Public Domain/ 
Llcenceware/ CD ROMS/accessories 
etc. Catalogue free of charge with first 
order. Accept phone orders, credit 
cards and direct debit. Open 10am - 
7pm Men to Fri, until 5pm on Sat. 
SHI Regional Virus Centra UK, 304 
Leeds Rd, Eccleshill, Bradford, W. 
Ydrks BD2 3LQ, Tel, + Fax: 0274 779 
212. Specialise In virus killers. Open 
Mcn-Fri lpm-9pm. People can phone 
the free Virus Helpline on 0274 779 
212 during the above hours. 
Software Expressions, 117 
Kennington Avenue, Blshopston, 
Bristol, BS7 9EX. Telephone (0272) 
425987, Fax is the same number, 
Specialist areas: Preponderance of PD 
games. Catalogue Free, Accept phone 
orders, credit cards and direct debit, 
(except switch). 9.30am - 5pm. State 
Amiga models when ordering. 
Startronics, 39 Lambton Road, 
Chorlton, Manchester, M21 1ZJ. 
Telephone 061/881/8994. Specialist 
areas: 1.3 Software. Catalogue Free to 
customers orders. Accept phone 
orders, credit cards and direct debit. 
Open 9.30am - 5pm. 
Telflscan Computer Services, PO Box 
1, Thronton-Cleveleys, Lanes, F¥5 
1SH. Telephone (0253) 829292. 
Catalogue, disk catalogue ■ 3 stamps. 
Accept phone orders, credit cards and 
direct debit. Open 10am to 5pm. 
The Official Amos PD Ubwy, 17 wick 
Farm Road, St Lawrence Bay, 
Southminster. Essex, CMO 7PF. 
Telephone and Fax (0621) 776804. 
Specialist areas: Amos programs, 
source-code disks, totally Amos disk 
magazine. Catalogue £1.00 disk s.a.e. 
for printed info. Do not accept phone 
orders, credit cards or direct debit. 
Open, postal only orders, queries and 
reasonable hour. We are the only 
Amos-only PD library in the UK, with 
the longest running disk magazine. 
Vally PD, P.O. Box 15, Peterlee, Co 
Durham, SRS 1NZ. Telephone 
091/587/1195, Fax 091/587/1195. 
Specialist areas: PD + Shareware for 
Amiga + PC, CD ROMS, + CLR 
Llcenceware. Catalogue .75p inc p&p. 
Accept phone orders, credit cards and 
direct debit. Open 9am - 6pm. We are 
part of the "UPD' group. 
Virus Free PD, 139 Victoria Read, 
Swindon, Wiltshire, 3N2 3BU. 
Telephone (0793) 432176, Fax (0793) 
5141S7, Catalogue £1.00 or 4 x 1st 
class stamps. Accept phone orders 
and credit cards. Open 9.30am - 
5,30pm Mon to Sat. Have been 
trading for 5 years in PD, 
Visage Computers Public Domain 
Library, 18 Station Road, Ilkeston, 
Derbyshire, DE7 5LD. Telephone 
(0602) 444501, Fax (0602) 444501. 
Specialist areas: Amiga hardware, 
software and peripherals as well as 
PD. Catalogue .50p. Accept phone 
orders and credit cards, but not 
switch. Open 9am - 5pm Mon to Sat. 
Your Choice PD, 39 Lambton Road, 
Charlton - cum - Hardy, Manchester, 
M21 OZJ. Telephone 061/S81/8994. 
Specialist areas: llcenceware. 
Catalogue FREE with order. Accept 
phone orders, credit cards and direct 
debit. Open 9.30am - 5pm Mon Sat 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 




Prices Include VAT 

No surcharge for credit cards 

Postage & Packing 

SIMMs & Hard Drives £5 

Printers & Systems £10 

Prices are subject ot change 

without notice. 

Prices correct at the time of going 

to press. 

Please phone to check availability 

before sending your order. 

Mode 15 Computers 
(0258) 837398 

Domus Alba, Cheselboume, 
Dorchester, Dorset DT2 7NJ 
Hours 6pm - 10pm Weekdays 
9.30am - 5pm Weekends 
Answer Phone at all other times. 



SIMMs 



72 Pin 32 Bit 70ns 
30 Pin 8 Bit 80ns 
32 bit GVP SIMMs 



Imb 

32 

65 



2mb 


4mb 


70 


122 


- 


120 


- 


188 



8mb 
250 



16mb 
485 

925 



32mb 
1035 



IDE Hard DriveS [SCSI & SCSI n also available POA) 



Various Quality Makes 
3.5" Low Profile 



SIZE 

170 
210 
250 
320 
420 
540 
1080 



PRICE 

135 
149 
159 
169 
189 
219 
485 



Western Digital Caviar 
3.5" Low Profile (V. Fast) 



SIZE 

341 
425 
540 
730 
1080 



PRICE 

220 
235 

270 
345 
489 



,*** New Lower Prices **** 



Various Makes 
2.5" (A1200 or CD32 SX 1) 



SIZE 

130 
250 
340 
405 
520 



PRICE 

130 
170 
225 
295 
360 
480 



Note; 2.5" drives come with fitting kit for A1200 and CD32 SX-1 module 

3.5" drives can be fitted into Al 200, Fitting kit costs £20 when bought with drive. 



Other Items 



Viper 030 Mkll 28mhz 
Viper 030 Mkll 33mhz 
Viper 030 Mkll 40rnhz 
GVP Al 230 40mhz Omb 
GVPA1230 50mhz0mb 
G-Force 040 40mhz For A4000 
WarpEngine 28Mhz w/o CPU 
WarpEngine 28Mhz w CPU 
WarpEngine 33Mhz w CPU 
WarpEngine 40Mhz w CPU 
20mhz FPU 68882 
33mhz FPU 68882 
40mhz FPU 68882 
50mhz FPU 68882 



140.00 

207.00 

235.00 

222.50 

290.00 

970.00 

590.00 

785.00 

980.00 

1175.00 

24.00 

60.00 

78.50 

120.00 



Toshiba XM3401B CD Rom 
Media Vision SCSI Rom 
ZappoA1200CDRom 
Canon BJ10SX InkJet Printer 
Epson Stylus Colour Printer 
EGS Spectrum 24bit Graphics 
Microvitec 1 438 Monitor 
5VGA 1 5" FST m/sync Monitor 
CD32 SX1 Module 
Black Keyboard for SX1 
GVP I/O Extender 2S 1 P 
Fax Modems - V32bis from 
Power SuperXL 3.5mb Floppy 
Video Backup V3.0 



275.00 

150.00 

185.00 

1 80.00 

450.00 

332.50 

285.50 

310.00 

189,00 

38.00 

120.00 

110.00 

95.00 

55.00 




BATH 0122S S5S229 

©AMES 

GUI POM POM GUNNER shoot 'era up THE EXCELLENT VALUE 

aiiunimimia . ASSA5SLNS GAME N0S UP TO 1 35 

CO! 1 Affi ACE 2 W.Y, 2 Shoot up ^ QRDER ^ ^ 

GO 13 THE REVENGE Play ED 209 from Rubocop j^^ DISK NUMBER 
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All disks compatible with all AMIGAS 
when disk KOOl-Diskstart VI 3 
is used on 

A500+/A600/A1200/A4000 



GQ20 LAME ST PORTS Spate invaders type 

G021 MASTER OF THE TOWN 

G025 DRAGONS CAVE Dungeon master 

purrle game 

G026 DOWNHILL CHALLENGE Ski Simulaiur 

G02S PIPELINE Classic ■ Too fast for I20W4000 

G040 PARADOX Puizlegsme 

G043 WIBBLE WORLD GIDDY A platform game 

G048 NEIGHBOURS (2 disks) One of the best PD 

games ever 

0049 FIGHTING WARRIORS 

G050BOMBJACKY 

G056 IS HOLE 0OLF(Z disks) 

G0J7 SPACE INVADERS 2 

G059 AMOS CRICKET Crfckel Sim 

G060 TR0N 2 Faster improved with time limit 

G062 DR MARIO Similar to NES game 

C063 ASSAUIX Shooting game 

GOM DEATH BRJNCERS IN SPACE A Xenon 

shoot em up 

GQ6S ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE 

G066 STARIANS Bizarre platform 

G0M SUPER SKODA CHALLENGE lor up to 

4 players unck editor etc 

GC70AMTGABOY Tetristype 

G071ACTOFWAR 

0072 ADDAMS FAMILY QUE 

0073 PARACHUTE JOUST 
Guide skydiver to ground 
G075 JEWEL A brilliant game 

G076 TOP SECRET Sony can't tell yon! 

0077 JELLY QUEST 

G07J VENUS INVADERS New version 

ot space invaders 

COW THE RIGHT WAY Lemmings done 

GuSO SUPER PRIX A birds eye view racing game 

COSI PATIENCE PD card game 



EOul TOTAL CONCEPTS DINOS 

A book on a disk 

EWE SCIENCE Excellent learning aid 

(4 disks) 

E003 FRACTIONS & SILHOUETTES 

Good maths utility 

E004 WORLD WAR 2 - Good history aid 

E006 WORLD GEOGRAPHY Very useful 

E007 KIDS DISK 1 Excellent reading disk 

E008 LEARN AND PLAY 1 For young 

Amiga users 

E0O9 LEARN AND PLAY 2 See above 

Usually ordered as 2 disk set. 

EOIOGCSEMATHS 

EOll LANGUAGE TUTOR French, 

Spanish, German & Italian 

E012 AMIGA WORLD 

mwm 

WHY PAY MORE THAN £3.00 

FOR FONT DISKS WHEN WE CAN 

SUPPLY THE EXACT SAME FOR 

£1.50 PER DISK 

(MIN 2 DISKS) +P&P 

AT NORMAL RATE. 

PLEASE STATE SCALABLE OR ADOBE 
FD01 FD02 FLUB FD04 FD05 
FD06 FD07 FDOS FD09 FDIO 
FD11FD12FDI3FD14FDI5 
FD16 FD17 FD1S FD19 FD20 
FD21 FD22 FD23 FD24 FD25 
FD26 

AVERAGE 17 PER DISK 

MISS® 

MD01 MUSIC MODULES A massive 
10 DISK collection of good music 
WE ALSO HAVE MUSIC DEMOS 



CATALOGUE DISK AT 75P Riff WITH ORDtt 



MRMKDS 

D004 ARSEWT.PE Commercial 

D007 FILLET THE FISH Animation 

DOW SIMPSON SLIDE SHOW 

D023 PUGGS IN SPACE 

D025 SAM FOX Slideshow 

D035 RUDE NOISES 

D036 FAST CARS 

D074 MADONNA LIKE A VIRGIN 

Dl 14 NEIGHBOURS SLIDESHOW 

DJ21 GIRLS ON FILM 

D129 SHOWERING GIRLS 

VIM WAR SIMULATOR Samples of 

sickness of war 

D198 BASIC INSTINCT pics from film 

D199 STRIP SLOT MACHINE 

V001 SUPERKILLERS Highly recommended 
as it could save yon £££s. Separate versions 
for AGA machines PLEASE STATE. 
All our disks are virus free. 

A019toA023(5disks in all as a set or 

single). Excellent pictures 

A024 FIT CHICKS Girly pics 1200 only 

(2 disks) 

A025 FREAKS BODY SHOP More girlv pics 

A030 FERRARI PICTURES Pics of worlds 

most exou'c car. Good colour 

A036 NIGHT BREED Pics in 25* colour 

(2 disks) 

G042 AGA TETRIS With 256 colour 

G082 AGA CHESS Needs 4Mh Ram 

UOM ULTIMATE BACKUP DISK 

UI23 WORKBENCH HACKS Effecls for 

WBV3.0 

Ul 18 MORE WORKBENCH HACKS 

U255 WB V30 INSTALL ■ HD install 

U256 A 1200 DEGRADERS 

U257VIEWTEKV1.03 

U258 HDREM Requires FMU.MMU 

U272 WORKBENCH V3.Q SCREENS 

DI8T TEAM HOI PLWNER GROOVE 

D195 PANTA REHI 

DI97TEAMHOI2 

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U1S1 FORMS UNLIMITED 
U183 MAGNUM Magaiine maker 
U1S4 EDWORD Text Editor 
UI85 POOLS PREDICTION 
U186VMORPHV2.0 
UI87 THE MENU DISK 

11188 CLUB LEAGUE 

11189 SCREEN BLANKERS 
U190 LTrTLE OFFICE 

U 191 VOICE CL1V5.5 

U 192 ACCOUNT MASTER 

U 193 SOFTWARE LISTER 

U194DISKPRINTV3.5 

U195RACEVI.6 

U196 DRAW MAP V4.1 1 MEG 

11296 DRAW MAP V4.1 2 MEG 

11199 ANTI FUCKER 

U200 AMICASH BANKING 

1202 MONEY MANAGEMENT 

U203 EASYCALC VI .0 Spreadsheet 

U 204 KEYBOARD TRAINER VI . 1 

U208 208 urnjTTEs 

U209 UNDELETE 

U211 RED SECTOR DEMO MAKER 

U212 AIBB V5 Diagnostic program 

U213 SYS INFO V3.ll 

U214 ENGINEERS KIT 

U2 15 DISK REPAIRERS 

1)216 AMIGA DIAGNOSTICS 

U218 MUSIC BASE UTILITY 

U219 ERROR INFO 

U222 REPAIR IT 3 

U224 SPECTRUM EMULATOR (2 disks) 

U229 KIDS PAINT 

U232 OCTAMED V2 

U233NUMPADFOR600 

U001THE ULTIMATE BACK UP 

U013 BUSINESS CARD MAKER 

U021 SYSTEM X-Telephone directory 

11136 600 BUSINESS LETTERS 

U139 PRINTER DRIVERS DISK 

U140 LABEL MAKER 

U153 MULTIPLAYER music module 

U167 WORKBENCH AV1.3 in Microsoft 

UI68 GAME TAMER V2.2 Cheats 

U176 UNDERSTANDING AMOS 

U178AGRAPH 

U179 CLI TUTOR 

U190DISKOPTIMISER 



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U026 TV GRAFFIX Backdrops etc for use with 

D Paint * genlocks [2 disks) 

U169 HARLEQUIN VIDEO ART IfBackdrops 

for genlocks, superb quality) 

UI7I HARLEQUIN FONTS Hi-res Fonts 

UI72 HARLEQUIN FONTS 2 More of the above 

(usually ordered with UI7I as a 2 disk set) 

THIS !S NOT A FULL UST Of OUR DISKS 

WE NOW HAVE A CATALOGUE DISK AT 

15? *?&P OR FREE WITH YOUR FIRST 

ORDER UPDATE DO NOT FORGET ALL 

OUR PD OISKS TtffS MONTH ARE AT 90P 

EACH tPetf SEE RATES BELOW 

We can now supply you with commercial 

titles over 400 in all from £12.99 for 688 

Attack Sub up to E259.99 for Broadcast litler 

ii (pal) other titles include Aladdin (A 1200) 

Arcade Fool, Bartletoads, Pinball 

Drcams/Fanlasies, Nightbreed, Myth, Sim 

City, Space Guest IV, Sim Ant, Soccer Kid, 

Star Trck A1200. Syndicate, Zeewolf, Zool, 

UPO Enemy Unknown AI200 

JOYSTICKS FROM £5.99 FOR QUICKSHOT 
Jh!R PYTHON 5 £9.99 ZIP STICKS £12.99, 

MAVERICK 1 £11.99 PLUS OTHERS 
DUST COVERS A 1 200 £4.00. A600 £4.00, 
MOUSE MATS 6mm £3.00. 8mm £4.00 
MOUSE FROM £11 .99. WE CAN ALSO 
SUPPLY YOUR DISK LABK1.S, PAPER 

DISK BOXES AND MOST OTHER 

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS POSTAGE 

SOFTWARE UK £2.00, EEC £3.00 per item. 

NON EEC £4.50 per item ACCESSORIES 

order under £40.00 (£2.50) over £40.00 km. 

DO NOT FORGET YOUR CATALOGUE 

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ALL DISKS THE SAME PRICE 90p each 

for PDs. Other Software see price, if you can 

not see it listed phone. If we have not 

got it we can get it. 

Postage UK 80p per disk. Europe + 45p per 

disk (min £1). World +45p per disk (min £2) 

Cheques & flO's payable to SPEEDY PD. 

Orders sent out 1st class. 

Please state machine & magazine. 



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From the people who bring 
you Amiga Format comes 
the complete buyer's 
guide for your Amiga. The 
Amiga Format Annual 1995 is 1 00 
pages stuffed with more 
information than you'll know 
what to do with. 

There are 15 sections 
devoted to all the best Amiga 
hardware and software ever 
released. There's a look 
back at the highs and lows 
of the last year and 
there's Amiga Formats 
top 20 Amiga and CD*? 
games of the year. 




On AF67's three festive 
Coverdisks are the 
excellent programming 
language AMOS 
Professional, the adorable Lion 
King, the speedy Ali Terrain 
Racing and the completely 
brilliant Sensible World Of 
Soccer. Once you've finished 
playing with them why not 
read all about how to get 
your game published and 
then turn to page 41 and try 
to win up to £1,000 by 
writing a game in AMOS 
Pro. And find out why 
Rise Of The Robots is 
the biggest turkey seen 
this Christmas! 



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Amiga Format 

Annual 1995 

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Cadbury Heath, Bristol BS15 
5AP. 

Duk Infield C.C. Swapshop. 
Contact Tom Hampson 

* 061 339 9488. 
Exeter Exeter 16-bit User 
Group. Contact Andrew Dee 
ley/Phil Treby at 25A Glouces- 
tershire Rd, Exwick, Exeter, EX4 
2EF. 

London PD for beginners. 
contact M.Macias 

* 071/924/5528 before 6pm, 
14 Totteridge House, 15 
Yefverton Rd, London ,SW11 
3QQ- 

Readlng Charlies PD. Contact 
Charles Read, 10 The Cedars, 
Tilehurst, Reading, Berks RG3 
6JW. 

Salisbury CHUD. Contact Mr M 
Se liars 

n 0980 33154. 
Taunton Imagine Object Mak- 
ers- Contact Charles Mo, 16 
Calder Crescent, Taunton, Som- 
erset 
TA1 2NH. 

Torquay Ami-Info. Contact Paul 
Caparn, Homeslde, Higher War- 
berry Road, Torquay, Devon 
TQ1 1SF. 



MIDLANDS 

Birmingham 68000 in Birming- 
ham. Contact Mike 
Bedford-White, 16 Westfield 
Rd. Acocks Green, B'tem B27 
7TL. 

Birmingham Software Exchange 
Service. Contact Michael Pun 
n 021 459 7576. 
Coventry Coventry and Warks 
Commodore Computer Club. 
Contact Will Light * 0203 
413511, 

Derby Living Poets Society. 
Publication and appraisal of 
creative writing. Sean 
Woodward. Fido 2:2503/104: 
11. Menin Road, Allestree, 
Derby,DE22 ZNL, UK. 
Hereford Hereford Amiga Group 
Heip. Contact John Macdonald 
f 0981 21414. 
Leicester NFA. Contact NFA 
Productions (0533) 661 610. 
PO Box 323, Cambell St. 
Leicester. 

Loughborough Leicestershire 
Amiga Users, Contact Da* or 
Eddy « 0533 375 147 or 
(0509) 267 198. PO Box 10, 
Mountsorrei, Loughborough, 
Leicestershire LE12 JZZ 
Loughborough BR & CJ Com- 
puter Club. Contact B Robinson 
« 0392 72889 or rr 03922 
841296. 

Melton Mowbray Melton Amiga 
Users. Contact Stephen Mow- 
bray 

» 0664 63421. 
Nottingham Robin Hood Amiga 
Users, Contact Kristian 
Deranan (0777)838 248.2 
Beech Walk, Elkesley Nr 
Retford, Notts DN22 8BB. 
Nottingham East Midlands 
Amiga User Group. Contact 
Richard Haythorn » 0602 
298075. 

Solihull Deluxe Cheats Disk 
User Group. Contact Steven 
Frew, 96 Campden Green, Soli- 
hull, West Midlands B92 8HG. 
Solihull Sid The Kid Amiga. Con- 
tact Sid Reeves, » 021 705 
8619. 

Solihull Solihull Computer 
Users Group. Contact Rich or 
Lee, 41 Leafield Road, Solihull, 
W. Midlands 
B92 8NZ, 

Stoke-on-Trent The Amiga 
Studio. Contact Dave Rose 
(0782) 815 589, 25 Zodiac 
Drive. Chell, Stokeon-Trent, 
Staffordshire, Midlands ST6 
6NJ 

Stoke-on-Trent ANDY PD 
contact Andrew Shufflebotham 
it (0782) 775014, 2 Sussex 
Drive, Kidsgrove, StokeDnTrent. 
Staffs, ST7 1HG. 
Sutton-on-Sea Aden PD. Con- 
tact Den Rounding, 8 Primrose 



Lane, Miami Beach, Trusthorpe 
Road, Sutton-on-Sea, Lin- 
colnshire LN12 2JZ. 
Telford Shropshire Amiga Link. 
Contact N Cockayne • 0952 
591376. 

Telford West Midlands Amiga 
Club, Contact Kevin Genner 
Tefford Snooker Centre, Canon- 
gate, Oakengates, Telford, Shrop- 
shire. 

WHney Cacophony (Unlimited). 
Contact Mark Wickson, 49 Per- 
rott Close, North Leigh, Wrtney, 
Oxon 0X8 6RU. 

NORTHEAST 

Balby Warpdrive. Contact B 
Scales 

it 0302 859715. 
Barnard Castle Amiga Users' 
Club. Contact Paul Kellett 67 
Green Lane, Barnard Castle. 
County Durham DL12 BLF 
Bamsley Access Amiga User 
Club. Contact Mark Grimshaw, 
20 Lilydene Ave, Grimethorpe, 
Barnsley, South Yorkshire S72 
7AA. 

Barnsley Amiga Programmers' 
User Group. Contact Andrew 
Postill, 2 Selby Road, 
Newlodge, Bamsley, South York- 
shire S71 1TA. 
Catterick Champion PD Club 
Contact Steve Pickett, 31 Som- 
erset Close, Catterick, N York- 
shire 
DL9 3HE. 

Chester-le-Street Chester-le- 
Street 16-Bit Computer Club. 
Contact Peter Mears = 091 
385 2939. 

Darlington Darlington Com- 
modore Users Club- Contact 
Steve Wheatley, 1 Ruby St, Dar- 
lington, Co Durham DL3 OEN. 
Darlington Jemsoft Amiga 
Users. Contact Danwood, 3 
Cavendish Drive, Darlington, Co 
Durham 
DL1 2GQ. 

Darlington National Amiga 
Users Group. Contact Member- 
ship Secretary, PO Box 151, 
Darlington, County Durham DL3 
8YT. 

= 0325 352260 
Dunham The Amiga Club. Con- 
tact G Starting, 31 Pine Lea, 
Brandon, Durham DH7 8SR. 
Harrogate Club 68000. Contact 
Chris Hughes » 0423 891910. 
Houghton-le-SBrfng Club Amiga. 
Contact Chris Longley, 5 Bowes 
Lea, Shiney Row, Houghton Le 
Spring, Tyne and Wear. 
Kolghley Pennine Amiga Club. 
Contact Neville Armstrong » 
0535 609263. 
Mlcklsy Nothing But AMOS 
Monthly disk magazine. Contact 
Neil Wright » 0661 842292. 
North Berwick East Lothian 



Amiga Group. Contact Mr J 
Curry " 0620 2173. 
Otety Hariey's PD Swaperama, 
Contact G Vamey * 0943 
466896. 

Rotherham Software City. Con- 
tact N Richards 
s 0709 526092. 
Sheffield Steel PD. Contact 
James Whitehead, 33 Middle 
Cliffe, Drive Crowedge, 
Sheffield 
S30 5HB. 

Spalding TDM. Contact Gedney 
Marsh, Spalding, Lincolnshire. 
Stocksfleld Blitz User Group, 
contact Neil Wright, 39 Riding 
Dene, Mickley Square, 
Stocksfleld, Northumber-land, 
NE43 7DL. 

Sunderland B litter. Contact 
Philip Kruman, 213 Fordfield 
Rd, Sunderland SR4 0HF. 
Sutton-on-Sea Aden PD Club. 
Contact Den Rounding, 8 Prim- 
rose Lane, Miami Beach. 
Trusthorpe Road. Sutton-cn- 
sea, Uncs LN12 2J2. 
TunstalL The Amiga Studio. Con- 
tact Dave Rose 
n 0782 815589. 
Washington Mainly Amiga. Con- 
tact Ray Scott 
« 416 9189. 

Whlteley Bay Club Future. Con- 
tact G Holland. 16 Hermlston, 
Monkseaton, Whitley Bay, Tyne 
and Wear NE25 9AN, 

NORTHWEST 

Aecrington New Hall Amiga 
Users Club. Contact Bill Grundy 
» 0254 385365. 
Blackburn Blackburn Amiga 
Users Group. Contact Eric 
Hayes " 0254 675625. 
Blackpool Channel Z Diskmag. 
Contact Darren Busby, 3 Edel- 
ston Rd, Blackpool FY1 3HN. 
Fleetwood Fylde Computer 
Club. Contact Colin Biss 
* 0253 772502, 
Lytharn St Annas Amiga Users 
Group Part 2. Contact Andy 
Wilkinson * 0253 724607. 
Macclesfield Computer Club 
(Est 1983). Contact D. Latham 
(chairman) *> (0625) 615 379, 
Fax: (0625) 429 667. c/o 
Grantham House, Macclesfield, 
Cheshire SK10 8NP. 
Oswaldtwlstle Hyndbum Amiga 
Users Club. Contact Nigel Rigby 
b 0254 395289. 
Skelmersdale Computeque. 
Contact Steve Lalley * 0695 
31378. 

Stamford Under 18 Only. Con- 
tact Joe Locker 
» 0780 64388 

SCOTLAND 

Angus Amiga CDTV club. Con- 
tact James Robertson » 0356 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



USER GROUPS 



623078, 22A High St, Brechin. 
Bathgate Lothian Amiga Users 
Group. Contact Andrew Mackie, 
52 Birniehill Ave, Bathgate, W 
Lothian EH48 2RR. 
Cowdenbeatrti Amiga FX. Corv 
tact Ryan Dow 
• 0383 511 258, 
C.P.C. User Group, am stair 
Lyons, 18 Braehead, Bo'ness, 
West Lothian, Scotland, EH51 
9DN. 

Dundee Tay-Soft PD Club, Con- 
tact Dave Thornton » 0382 
5QS437. 

Dunfermline Dunfermline Sound 
& Vision Club. Contact Stan 
Reed, 7 Maxton Place, Rosyth, 
Dunfermline, Fife KY11 2DQ. 
East Lothian Amiga Club (every 
2nd week). Derek Scott ■» 0620 
823137, [Saturday 1 - 4pm). 
Bridge Centre, Potdrate, 
Haddington, East Lothian, Scot- 
land. 

Edinburgh Edinburgh Amiga 
Club. Contact Stephen Fradley 
v 031 555 1142. 
Edinburgh Edinburgh Amiga 
Group. Contact Neil McRea, 37 
Kingsknowe Road North, Edin- 
burgh EH 14 2DE. 
Glasgow Amiga Helpline. Con- 
tact Gordon Keenan, Amiga 
Helpline, 6 Skirsa Square, Glas- 
gow G23. 

Hawick Borden Teri Odin BBS. 
Derek Scott, 0450 373071. 
26d Harden Place, Hawick. Bor- 
ders, Scotland. 

Inverness Highland PD.Contact 
David Paulin 
" 0463 242431.) 
Johnstone Using AMOS. Con- 
tact Colin McAllister 
b 0505 331342. 
Perth Perth and District Ama- 
teur Computer Society- Contact 
Alastair MacPherson 137 Glas- 
gow Rd, Perth. 
Redbum Redburn Computer 
Users Group. Contact Ruby An- 
derson •» 0294 313624, 
w. Lothian Amiga Computer 
User Club. Contact Alistarr 
Lyons, 18 Braehead, Bo'ness, 
W. Lothian, Scotland EH 51 
9DN. 

WALES 

Bangor Amiga Maniacs. Con- 
tact Johnny, B Tan-y-Grals t 

Caernarfon Rd r Bangor LL57 
4SD. 

Carmarthen Bloomfield Video 
and Computing. Contact Mrs 
Beryl Hughes 
<n 0267 237522. 
Clw*d Shield Soft PD. Write to 
26 Doren Avenue, Rhyl, Clwyd 
IULS4LE, 
« 0745 134 3044. 
Clwyd Solo (Amiga). Contact 
Mike, 26 Doren Avenue, fthyl, 
Clwyd LU8 4LE. » 0745 
343044 

Neath Amiga Navigation. Con- 
tact Dave Thomas 4a, Allister 
St, Neath, W Glamorgan.) 
Powvs Blue Bedlam. Contact 
Michael Grant " 0873 811791. 



N IRELAND 

N Ireland N. Ireland Amiga 
User. Contact Stephen Hamer, 
98 Crebilly Rd, Ballymena, Co 
Antrim BT42 4DS. 
N Ireland Digital Intensity 
(diskmag). Contact Simon Den- 
vlr, 40 Old Cave Hill Rd, Belfast 
BT15 5GT. 

SPECIAL INTERESTS 

Amiga Sports Fans. Contact 
Jamie Last, York House, Church 
Road, Elmswell, Bury St Ed- 
munds, Suffolk, IP30 9DY. 
Angus Amiga Musicians Club. 
Contact Gavin Wylie, Guttirie 
Street, Carnoustie, Angus. 
Baslngstoke AMOS Program- 
mers Exchange. ContactJ 
Lanng, 7 Majestic Rd f Hatch 
Warren, Basingstoke, Hants 
RG22 4XD. 

Brartston Fen Amiga Boatnwn- 
BIB. Contact Beet Lock, 
Branston Fen, Lincolnshire LN3 
SUN. 

Braunston Mr Daventry GFA 
Basic Forum. Contact J Findlay 
"0788 391197 
Braunston, Nr Daventry Amiga 
E Support Group. Contact John 
Findlay » 0788 891197. 
Broadstalrs AMOS Programmer 
Club. Contact Gareth Downes- 
Powell, 6 Brassey Avenue. 
Broadstairs h KentCTIO 2DS. 
Chelmsford Independent Com- 
modore Products Users Group. 
Contact David Elliott 
» 0245 32S 737 
Durham, Under IS PO User 
Group fJB's PD). Contact J 
Blackburn, Longridge, Potters 
Bank, Durham DH13RR. 
Glasgow 24-bit Club. Contact 
Gordon Keenan, 24-bit Club, 6 
Skirsa Square, Floor 1, Glasgow 
G23, 

HighflBlds CDTV User Group. 
Contact Gary Ogden, » 0785 
227059, 

Ungfield In Touch Amiga- 
Contact P Allen, v 0342 
835530, PO Box 21, Ungfield, 
Surrey RH7 6YJ. 
London (Richmond) Micro Acad- 
emy. Contact Don Pavey • 081 
878 1075. 

London Independent Com- 
modore Products Users Croup. 
Contact the Membership Secre- 
tary (Fan 

» 081 651 3428). 
» 0S1 651 5436 
Lothian Independent Com- 
modore Products Users Group. 
Contact David Hope tr 0555 
811 955.. 

Macclesfield Independent Com- 
modore Products Users Group, 
Contact Peter Richardson 
» 0298 23644 

Maidenhead Independent Com- 
modore Products Users Group. 
Contact Mike Hatt 
« 0753 645 728. 
Manchester CDTV Users Club. 
Contact Julian Lavanini, 113 
Fouracres Rd, Newall Green, 
Manchester M23 SES. 



WHAT ARE YOU UP TO? 

Here at Amiga Shopper we spend our days 
pondering on what you are all up to. Please set 
our minds at peace - write in and tell us about 
your user group. What do you do? Who is in it? 
Have you organised some special event/project 
lately? We are extremely nosy - we want to 
know everything, right down to the juicy details! 
We could make you the User Group of the 
Month and as such you will be awarded a very 
special (secret) price. 

Get writing 



New Whlttlngton Digital Music 

Club. Contact Roger Hunt 
«r 0246 454280. 
Normanton BASIC 
Programmers' Group. 
ContactMark Blackall 
» 0924 892106. 
Rochford Ray Tracers. Contact 
Neil Hallarn. 12 Meesons 
Mead, Rochford. Essex SS4 
1RN, 

Romford Phoenix Demo. Con- 
tact Frank 

* 081 597 4661. 
Rottiemam Marksman {Trojan 
Phazer user group). Contact 
David Green, 67 Thicket Drive, 
Maltby, Rotherham, S Yorkshire 

see 7lb. 

Solent Independent Com- 
modore Products Users Group. 
Contact Anthony Dimmer *r 
0705 254969 

Swindon Amiga Video Produc- 
ers' Group. Contact J Strutton 

• 0793 870667 before 9pm. 
Swindon MUG - MED Users 
Group. Contact Richard Bannis- 
ter, 6 Glevum Rd, Stratton St 
Margaret, Swindon SN3 4AF. 
Walllngton Bible Bureau.Con- 
tact AD 

■» 081 669 7485. 
Ware Gamer-Link. Contact Stu, 
28 Churchfield, Ware, Herts 
SG12 OEP. 

WHham Video Visuals. Contact 
Chris Brown, 4 Lavender Close, 
Witham. Essex CMS 2YG, 
Workington AMOS Program- 
mers Group. Contact John 



Mullen at 62 Lonssdale St, 

Workington, Cumbria CA14 
2YD. 

OVERSEAS 

Australia Southern Suburbs 
Commodore Users Group, 
Steve Perry, P.O. Box 217, 
Beverley Hills 2209, Sydney, 
N.S.W. Australia. 
Australia Amiga Users Group of 
Western Australia. Contact Bill 
Sharpe-Smith PO Box 595, 
Clover- date WA 6105 Australia. 



Rem Office, 51 Rue de la Bre- 
tonniere, 50105 Cherbourg, 
France. * 33 33225447. 
Germany Royal Air Force Amiga 
Club. Contact Stan Young, HMF 
RAF Laarbruch, BFPO 43. 
Germany Worldwide PD Club. 
Contact Dave White, Berliner 
Strasse 39, 40880 Ratingen, 
Germany « 02102 499729 
(Germany). 

Greece Amiga Athens club. 
Contact Stefanos Papamichael, 
9 Derfeld Rd, Patisia, 11144 
Athens, Greece » 
01/2027973. 

Greece Amiga Pros User Group 
Greece. Contact Stefanos 
Siopoulos, 52 Silivrias Str., '■•!. 
Smymi 17123, Athens, Greece, 
« 01/9349963. 
India Indian Amiga Friends. 
Contact Bilal, 46 Paragon 405 
Lokhandwaza Complex, Andheri 
(W), Bombay-400058. 
Ireland Amiga Addicts. For info 
SAE to A Minnock, Clonkelly, 
Binn, Co Offaly, Ireland, 
Ireland AMOS Users .Contact 
Brian Bell, 8 Magnolia Park, 
Dunmurry, Belfast BT17 ODS. 



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the Amiga user groups worldwide. If your user group 
isn't on this page, send the form to Amiga Shopper 
User Groups, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW. 



Australia Comp-U-Pal. Contact 
Comp-U-Pal, 116 Macarthur 
Street, Sale, Victoria 3850, 
Australia. 

Belgium AUGFL vzw. Contact 
Lieven Lema, Meesberg 13, 
3220 Holsbeek, Belgium, 
Denmark Danish AMOS user 
group. Contact Tom Poulsen, 
DABG, postbox 127, 2640 
Hedehusene, DK Denmark, 
France 16-32 Micro. Contact F 
Moreau, 132 rue Jean Follain, 
50000 Salnt-Lo, France • 
315220 02. 

France Mahtime Amiga Club. 
Contact CDR K Osei, GN Ships 



Ireland City Centre Amiga 
Group. Contact Patrick Chap- 
man. 70 Ballygall Crescent, Fin- 
glas East, Dublin II, Ireland, 
n 345035. 

Ireland CUGI Commodore Users 
Group of Ireland. Contact Geof- 
frey Reeves, c/o St Andrew's 
College, Booterstown Avenue, 
Blackrock, Co Dublin, n +353 1 
288 3863. 

Ireland Navan Computer Club. 
Contact Mark Arnold, Cannis- 
town, Navan, Co Meath, Eire 
" 046 21078. 

Ireland Morthside Amiga Group. 
Contact William Kelling, 10/A 
Rainsford Avenue, Dublin S, Ire- 



land " 01 532 807. 
Ireland Software Exchange 
Club. Contact Michael Lacey, 
Fern's Post Office, Enniscorthy, 
Co. Wexford, Republic of Ire- 
land. 

Malta HTS (MaKa). Contact K 
Cassar, Block 1 Flat, 6 H E Hal- 
Tmiem, Zejtun ZTN07 Malta n 
674023. 

Malta Malta Amiga Club. Con- 
tact Zappor. PO Box 39, St Ju- 
lians, Malta, » 440453 
Portugal. Centro Amiga/Via 
Lactea BBS, 
Rui Costa, 351 01 888 
2245/49, Largo do Martlm 
Monrz-CC, Mouraria, 1 loja 
408-1100 Lisboa, Portugal. 
Portugal Software Asylum. Sid 
Sanches, Portugal » 062 
831566. Apartado 6156, 3000 
Coimbra, Portugal. 
Singapore Singapore Sling. 
Contact Eric Chai ML, Block 4 
#14-413, Pandan Valley. Singa- 
pore 2159. v 65 4680630. 
South Africa Amiga Users Ex- 
change (AUX). Contact Ken 
Turner, 24 Du Plessls Avenue, 
Edgemead, 7441 Cape Town, 
S. Africa. Internet: 
kturner^aztec.cb.za 
Sweden 32-bit ware. Contact 
32-bit ware, Ekorrstlgen 10, 
147 63 Tumba, Sweden, 
Switzerland Amiga User Group 
Switzerland (AUGS) 
Contact AUGS «r ++41 34 45 
3078, Bahnhofstr. 7, CH-3426 
Aefllgen, Switzerland. BBS: +41 
(0) 62 44 32 27. We have our 
own Net on several Swiss 
Amiga BBSs called "AUGS-Nef. 
USA Japan Amiga Group.Con- 
tact: Rick Gardaya, PSC 78 Box 
3876, APO AP 96326 USA. 

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user groups. Amiga Shop- 
per does not endorse or 
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AMIGA 5HOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



ASSEMBLER 87 



Assembler.^ 

Toby Simpson is in for an absolutely spectacular exit in this fifth 
instalment of the long awaited Assembler series. Thrilling stuff, this! 



Last month we wrote a program to show 
"Hello World* on the screen. Although our 
source code for this was considerably 
longer than the equivalent for a language such as 
C (three lines), or BASIC (one line), the resultant 
program was much shorter (and faster, although 
you wouldn't notice for such a pathetic program). 
This was our first introduction to talking to the 
Amiga's operating system from Assembly 
language. In order to show "Hello World" we had 
to open the "dos. library", and use functions 
from within it. This month we'll be looking at 
libraries a little closer, and try to achieve 
something a little more spectacular! Our goal this 
time around is to open a window on the screen, 
wait till the Close Gadget is clicked on by the 
user, and then exit. 

To re-cap from last month, in Amiga terms, a 
library is a collection of sub-routines you can use, 
grouped by the type of thing that they do. In the 
same way that IBM-PCs have 'Microsoft Windows 
(TM)', the Amiga has 'Intuition', intuition is the 
name for the Amigas Graphic User Interface (GUI), 
or to put it in a slightly more understandable way, 
Intuition is responsible for the way you interact 
with your Amiga with the mouse and screen. 

The "intuition. library" contains functions for 
opening and closing screens and windows, as well 
as stuff for menus, gadgets and all sorts of other 
user- inter face related goodies. If you're planning 
on writing any Amiga program with some sort of 
pretty interface, you'll be needing to work with the 
intuition library. So, how do we use it? 

Firstly, just like we had to open the dos. library, 
the intuition. library has to be opened before we 
can use it. This is done by using the exec. library 
function "OpenLibrary". The code to open the 
library is almost identical to last months example, 
but with a different name called: 

lea IntName, al 



moveq #$80, dO; we don't care about ** 
version 

SIS Openiibrary 

move.l dO,mtBase 

beq ErrorOpeningLibrary j This is •" 
called if the library didn't open. 

In this example, we load the address of the 
label IntName into Al, clear DO, and then use the 
SYS macro to call OpenLibrary. IntName is defined 
line this: 

IntNaffle: dc.b "intuition. library", 

When OpenLibrary returns, all being well, we 
have the Library Base, which is the magic number 
we need to quote whenever we call a routine in it, 
in DO. We store this result in IntBase: 

IntBaae: del ; Intuition library base 
If the result was zero, which means the library 
did not open, we jump to the label 
"ErrorOpening Library", where we would cope with 
it as required. So, now we have opened the library, 
how can we use it? The easiest way, is to write a 
small macro, to take some of the work off us: 

INT: macro 

move.l IntBase, aG 

jsr_LV0U(_6) ; intuition. library * 

access macro 
endm 

You'll note that this is almost identical to the 
DOS and SYS macros we have already created. 
Having opened the library, we can use it. The 
easiest way to check it works, is to try the 
following: 

move.l #0,a0 
INTDi ap 1 ayBeep 

DisplayBeep is an intuition function which 
flashes a screen. It needs to know which screen, 
and this is passed into the function in the A0 
register. Since we don't have any information 
about screens at this point, we pass in Zero. This 
means "flash all the screens." 

You may be interested to know, that we can 
actually make the above code run faster, if we re- 



wrote it like this: 

aub.l aO,aQ 

INT DisplayBeep 

...both examples achieve the same thing. The 
second one subtracts the contents of AO from 
itself, which of course will zero the AO register. 

It is actually quicker to do this than it is to use 
the move.l command. Why is this? Well, let's look 
briefly at the code which is generated: 

207CD000OOOO move.l #$00, aO 
91C8 sub.l a0,a0 

As you can see, the second example is only 2 
bytes, where as the first is 6. We can see why, in 
the move.! example, the actual machine code for 
the instruction is 207 C, the next four bytes are the 
value we're moving into AO. This is very wasteful. 
The second instruction requires no additional data, 
just the two registers in question, which is 
included in the 91C8 machine code instruction. 

There are other issues when deciding how fast 
an instruction is. Its not just which is shortest. 
Certain instructions take a lot of time to run, 
whereas others are much quicker. Take these 
three instructions: 

COPC0002 mulu.w #$02, dO 

DC-4 add.w d0,d0 
E348 lel.w #$01, d0 

The first instruction takes considerably longer to 
execute than the second and third one. Indeed, on 
the 68000 processor found in A500s, the multiply 
instruction takes over 70 machine cycles, over 20 
times longer than the second instruction. And yet 
all three perform exactly the same operation: the 
first multiplies DO by two, and the second adds DO 
to itself, and thus multiplying it by 2. 

The third is a little more complex, and requires 
a brief explanation. The LSL instruction means 
"Logical Shift Left". What it actually does, is to 
shift a binary number left by a specified number of 
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tested with Devpac. If 
you get any errors when 
assembling, you should 
check that you have 
typed It exactly right. 



DO left by 1 place. Let's assume DO contains the 
value 3. 3 in binary is: 
00000011 

I've padded the value with zeros to make it a 
full 8 bit number, a single byte. Let's shift this left 
by one, and put a zero in the new place which 
appears at the far left: 

00000110 

OK, work it out. You'll find, amazingly, that the 
result is 6. We've doubled the contents of DO. This 
works for any number, we can multiply it by 2 by 
simply shifting it left by 1. in fact, we can multiply 
it by any power of 2 (ie, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and so 
forth) with a shift instruction. 

LSL is paired with LSR, Logical Shift Right, 
which allows us to shift binary patterns right. A 
useful application of this, is dividing by powers of 
2. LSRing something by 1 divides it by 2. LSRing it 
twice divides it by 4, and so forth. In Assembly 
Language, you'll often find yourself wanting to 
multiply and divide things by powers of 2, and it's 
useful to remember that LSR and LSL are sizably 
quicker than the multiply and divide instructions. 

Bit pattern level instructions such as this are 
quite a complex subject, and we're going to look at 
these in much greater detail next month together 
with some neat examples of them in action. 

Anyway, back to our three instructions. The 
other catch is that the first one (the multiply) is 
much more obvious than the second and third, 
and is usually the one chosen by beginners. When 
you start making serious optimisations in your 
code without thinking, such as adding DO to itself 
to double a registers contents, or using LSL/LSR 
for multiply and divide operations, for example, you 
know you're getting there. 

We digress (but for a worthy cause, of course). 
Back to the point in hand. When we have finished 
with the intuition library, we have to close it. We 
do this just like we closed the dos library, with the 
exec routine "CloseLibrary": 

move.l IntBascal 
3YSC loseLibrary 

So that's intuition library access in a nutshell. 

Time to do something more productive with it, like 
opening a window. Let's have a look at the 
definition for the OpenLibrary function: 

struct window *OpenWindow ( struct *•* 
HewWindow *) 
DO AO 

We can see here, that we call the OpenWindow 
function with something in AO which the 
intuition, library uses to decide what our window 
looks like. All being well, a magic number is 



returned to us which actually points to intuitions 
window information for the window you've just had 
opened. If intuition fails to open your window, then 
zero is returned. 

Well, this is all very well, but what goes in AO? 
Well, this is where a reading knowledge of C is 
handy. I've viciously ripped the above definition 
straight out of the intuition, library autodoc file, 
which is available as part of the Amiga Developers 
ToolKit (Available from Commodore for 23 pounds, 
see last month). Although you don't need to know 
how to program C to program Assembly Language, 
it's very helpful, if only so that you can make head 
or tail of the official documentation, such as the 
Rom Kernal Manuals, or AutoDocs. 

Let's look at the gobbiedygook (Goodness, I 
have not used that word for a while. I wonder if it 




The program In action! Opening windows Is a 
fundamental part of programming on your Amiga. 



still works?) line again: 

struct Window *CpenWindow( struct w 
NewWindow *) 

This actually means "The function 
OpenWindow requires a pointer to a specially 
arranged block of memory, called a NewWindow 
structure. When it returns, it returns a pointer to a 
specially arranged block of memory called a 
Window structure." There. Easy. Sort of! Anyway, 
don't be alarmed. Let's look at a NewWindow 
structure in a form that will be a little more 
familiar to us, Assembly Language: 

; — This is the definition for our new window 

shopperwindow- do.w 100,100 ; Top Left Co- 
ordinates 

dew 320,100 i Width and Height of Window 
dc.b 0,1 i Detail and block pens. ** 
Ignored Kickatart 2+ 

del IDCMP_CIOSBWINDOW ; what messages «■ 



we want to bear about 
del 

WTLG_S I ZEGADGET +WFLG_DRAGBAR+WPI,G_DE PTHGA3JGET ■" 

+WFLG_CLOSEGADGET ; Window Flags 

dc . 1 ; Pointer to first Gadget on *■ 

Window 

del t ** Ignore this one 

del sw_WindowTitle ; Pointer to window ■*" 

title 

del ; Pointer to screen to open on 
del -, ** Ignore this one 
dew 50,50 ; Minimum Width and Height 
dew 640,200 | Maximum Width and Height 
dew WBENCHSCREEN ; Type of screen to •" 

open on. 

It is pretty well documented, so you should be 
able to see what happening here. We're asking for 
a window 320 pixels wide, 100 pixels high, 
starting at 100,100 on the screen, with a sizing 
gadget, a drag bar, a depth gadget and a close 
gadget. In addition, we're giving it a title, it is to 
open on the workbench screen, and the minimum 
size is 50x50, and the maximum size is 640x200. 
You can tweak the numbers in this months listing 
to see how things change, and if you delve into the 
include file " intuition/intuition. i" you'll find the 
definitions for all of these, and much more 
information on the NewWindow structure. 

The really odd thing in the above is the 
definition "IDCMP_CLOSEWINDOW", commented 
as "What Messages we want to hear about". 
We're jumping quite far ahead here, by a good 
coupie of months, but hopefully the listing is 
commented well enough for you to follow what is 
happening. We are asking for intuition to tell us 
when the user clicks on the close gadget. When 
the user actually does click on the close gadget, 
intuition sends us a message. 

This message arrives at a special place in 
memory called a Message Port. When we open a 
window and ask to be told about certain 
messages, intuition creates a Message Port for 
us. If you look in the listing, you'll see that we first 
wait for a message to arrive, then we receive it, 
reply to it and exit the program, after closing the 
window using the intuition function "CloseWindow". 

Next month we'll be writing some useful 
routines to help us debug programs, and see what 
is going on inside them, such as functions to 
output messages to the screen, show numeric 
values, and so on. 

We'll also delve inside logical operations, and 
revisit LSL and LSR, as well as their partners ROR 
and ROL (No prizes for guessing what these do), 
and some other goodies like ORing, ANDing and 
NOTing! So stay tuned, we'll be programming the 
AGA hardware directly in no time! 

WHY WE USE A DEBUGGER 

If this isn't an obvious question, I don't know 
what is. The correct answer is, of course "Because 
we wish to find bugs as quickly and efficiently as 
possible." Despite having access to debuggers, 
it's amazing how many people will spend hours 
looking through their source code for bugs, instead 
of getting the computer to do the work for them. 
Lets illustrate with a small example. Type in this 
program: 

moveo. #J00, dO 

moveq #$00,dl 
divu d0,dl 
rts 

...now assemble it and run it. But before you 
run it, make sure you have nothing un-saved in the 
background, as your computer is going to crash 
with a GURU error something like "80000005". 
OK, if you're awake the chances are you've already 
seen why this happened. We're loading into DO 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



ASSEMBLER 89 



and Dl, and then dividing one by the other, which 
as we're all taught in school is impossible. You 
can't divide anything by zero, and since your 
computer is no miracle worker, and it can't either, 
it crashed. 

If this error had been in a 50,000 line program 
with potentially a hundred or so divide instructions 
in it, it may take a fair while to find. Of course, it 
could be obvious, if it is, then you won't be 
needing help from Mr Debugger. 

If you run this program through a debugger 
instead, such as MonAm (Which came with DevPac 
Lite on last months cover disk) then instead of 
crashing, the debugger would have stopped 
executing the program when the error occurred, 
and will kindly point out exactly which line contains 
the bug in question. Fixing the problem should be 
academic then. 

So how do we run our program through the 
Debugger? Well, it varies depending on the 
assembler which you are using, but for DevPac 
Lite, instead of selecting "Run" from the Program 
menu, we select "Debug" instead. We then have a 
considerable amount of options open to us, which 
we will introduce over the following months, but for 
this particular program, we can run it a line at a 



time using "CTRL-T" (Hold Control down and tap 
T). When we finally run the divide line, MonAm will 
say "Divide by Zero" and stop. We can see exactly 
which line in the program caused the problem, and 
fix it quickly. 

The moral of this story is, don't do work that 
the computer could do for you. Remember: 
Debuggers are there to help you. Personally, I 
don't leave home without one! 

Here is a summary of the most common 
MonAm commands: 

CTRL-R Run Program. Execution will 

stop at the first break-point, or when a serious 
error occurs. (Break-Points are little markers you 
can place whilst debugging, we will cover them in 
much more detail in later issues) 

CTRL-Y Single step. This runs one 

instruction and moves forward to the next. CTRL-Y 
treats subroutine calls, using BSR and JSR, as 
one instruction, and does not follow the program 
into them. This is useful when you don't wish to 
follow an Amiga Library call into the operating 
system. 

CTRL-T Single step. This works 

identically to CTRL-Y, except it follows all BSR and 
JSR calls also. 



CTRL-Q Quit the program. This stops 

the current program you are debugging from 
running. 

CTRLC Quit the debugger. You can 

quit leaving the program you are debugging 
running, but whilst you're still learning, it is best to 
remember to quit your program properly using 
CTRL-Q instead. 

CTRL-S Skip the current instruction. 

This passes over an instruction without running it. 
This is a very useful debugging tool when you want 
to see what happens if a particular routine or 
instruction is not executed, or if you know an 
instruction is going to crash the computer, but 
want to skip over it and continue regardless. 

Of course, this is nowhere near the range of 
options which MonAm gives us. For those, you'll 
need to buy the program and get the manual 
(which is excellent, and I'm saying that without a 
single bribe being passed on from Hi Soft!). 

The two pictures show our program before we 
debugged it, and when we found the divide by zero 
error. You will see that all the information about 
the processor, including all register contents, are 
shown on the screen for us. For more information, 
call HiSofton 01525 718181. © 



THIS MONTHS LISTING - OPENING A WINDOW 



ttl"Qpening a Window in Assembly Language" 



; Amiga Shopper Assembly Language Course, •" Part V: 

; Opening a Window using intuition. library, 
; Tested with DevPac 3 and DevPac Lite. 
J 

section HelloWorld,code 

ENTHY_PQIHT: bra.s START ; Call » start of program. 

I 

i — Embedded version string: 

VERSION: dc.b 0,"$VEJt: window. asm 1.00 •" (30. 11. 941", 

1 

j — Include files 

incdir "ioc:" 

inc lude "exec/exec. i" 

include "exec/funcdef ,i" ; You may 

include "exec/exec_llb.i" 

include "intuit ion/ intuit ion. i" 

include "intuition/intuition_lib.i" 



not need this. 



SYS WaitPort ? Await news... 

: — A possible message, process them all 
S T_Ge tHa usages: move . 1 WindowHand 1 e , a 

move.l wa_userPort(aO),aO 

SYSGetHsg 

tst.l dO 

beq.s STWaitMessage ; No message, go •'back to waiting 

; — Got a message, since we're only •" listening for 

IDCMP_CLOSBWI NDOW , 

; it can be nothing else, so reply and then*' exit: .... 

move .1 dO , al 

SYS ReplyMsg 
t 
1 — All done, close window and exit 

move.l windowHandle,aO 

INT CloseWindow 

j — All done now, so close the library and*" exit .... 
ST_NoWindow : move.l IntBass,al 

SYS CloseLibrary 
I 

t — Now quit this program .... 
EXIT: moveg #$00,d0 ,- Exit program, 

rts 




no error. 



; — Equates .... 

EXECBASE: equ$04 



exec. library case. 



; — Hacrc Definitions .... 
SYS : macro 

move . 1 _execbase , a 6 

Jsr_LV0U(a6) ; exec. library access"" macro 

andm * 

INT : macro 

move.l IntP.ase.aS 

jsr_LVO\l(a6) ? intuition. library •"access macro 

endm 

; — Haiu Program: .... 
START : leal ntName ( pc ) , a 1 

move.l #$00,dO ; We're not fussed •"which version 

SYS OpenLibrary 

move.l dO.IntBase 

beg EXIT ;No intuition, amazing. Abort. 
I 
j — Attempt to open our window .... 

lea ShopperWindow (pc > , aO 

INT Openwindow 

move.l dO , WindowHandle i store window *" pointer 

bag. ST_KoWindow ; Couldn't open •"window, close int and exit 

,- — wait for a message to arrive .... 
£T_WaitMessage: move.l WindowHandle, a 
move.l wd_UserFort(aO),aO 



; — Data for this program .... 

IntBase: del ; space for intuition library base 

Int Name: dc.b "intuition. library", ? Intuition library 

WindowHandle : do . 1 ; Our window magic •" number 



i — This is the definition for our new window .... 
ShopperWindow: dew 100,100 ; Top Left Co-Ordinates 

dew 320,100 ,- Width and Height of Window 

dc.b 0,1 ; Detail and block pens. •'Ignored Kick start 2+ 

del idCnp_closewindqw ; What messages we want to hear about 

dc . 1 WFLG_SI2EGAD0ET+WFLS_DRAgBAR+WFL3_DEPTHGADGET+l»' 
wflg_closegadget ,- Window Flags 

del j Pointer to first Gadget on Window 

del j ** Ignore this one 

del sw_WindowTitle ; pointer to window title 

dc . 1 ,- Pointer to screen to open on 

del ; ** Ignore this one 

dew 50,50 ,- Minimum Width and Height 

dew 640,200 ; Maximum width and Height 

dew WBENCHSCKEEN ; Type of screen to open on. 

j — Our window's title: .... 
sw.WindowTitle: dc.b "A window of hope!",0 

J *** END OF PROGRAM *** 



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This month we have a bumper crop of letters 
on a wide range of subjects, so let's get 
straight in with a letter about the 
marketing of the Amiga... 

MARKETING MANIA 

I have read with much interest over 
recent months the suggestions 
regarding how the future of the 
Amiga can be assured. Many of us 
would agree that the machine has 
been appealingly marketed in the past. Our 
beloved Amiga didn't deserve Commodore, but 
unfortunately it got Commodore! However, while 
the idea of a massive worldwide marketing 
campaign is enticing, we surely must take a step 
back and examine the practicalities. 

Which ever bid succeeds - and I hope to God 
It's decided by the time you read this - should 
result in a significant influx of Investment; that 
the Amiga desperately needs. However, we 
cannot expect a bottomless pit of money to be 
thrown around on worldwide advertising In an 
attempt to steal a share of the PC market. Not 
only would that be extremely expensive, but what 
would it achieve? 

From a business pint of view, 90% of the 
world's desktops have a PC sat on 'em, and if 
you think employers are going to throw all this 
gear away because of an Amiga advert, then I 
suggest your rose-tinted spectacles need 
cleaning. The Amiga has to find its niche 
elsewhere, it has to create its own market, and I 
would suggest that this Is nowhere more 
dramatic than in the home. 

It Is clear that the PC is beginning to Invade 
the home market, which has historically been the 
Amiga's stronghold. PCs come as an integrated 
package at a dirt cheap price; very tempting for 
the computing newcomer who is unlikely to 
consider that he'll subsequently have to pay 
£200 for any decent software. A friend of mine Is 
considering buying a PC at the moment. I 
suggested the Amiga, saying: it was cheaper 



Introduction; you can plug It Into your TV until 
you can afford a decent monitor; it's fully multi- 
tasking; and the operating system is a breeze 
compared to Windows, "Sounds great", he said. 
"Can it run Word?" "Er... no" I suspect he'll go 
for a PC. 

Given this rather desperate state of affairs, 
how does the Amiga fight back? Well, I guess the 
most important thing to do is consider where the 
best potential. Graphically, the Amiga is pretty 
much unbeatable. Commodore's replacement 
should use the fact that Ami gas are the 
computer of choice for Hollywood special effects 
men and have been used in the making of 
blockbusters like Jurassic Park and Disney's 
Aladdin, as well as Star Trek, Sea Quest DSV and 
of course Babylon 5. 

By directing limited advertising in the right 
areas, say for example magazines dedicated to 
the expanding camcorder market, the Amiga can 
start to find Its feet again. Another more general 
area where the Amiga is strong is the (dare I say 
It) multimedia arena. Imagine the rumoured 
A1800 {that's and A1200 with built-in CD ROM 
drive) bundled with Scala for £350. The potential 
is mind-boggling, particularly as Scale are moving 
into interactive TV. In a loose partnership, both 
companies could become household names, 
which can't be bad. 

The Amiga is not a PC and Is unlikely to ever 
beat the PC in terms of numbers sold, but that 
doesn't mean the Amiga has to die, it just has to 
adapt and find its own way. If it doesn't, if it tries 
to take on the PC, then It will suffer the same 
fate as the Beta max video format in its battle 
with VHS - and remember, Betamax was a 
technically better system too. 

Jamie Winter 
Waterioovile, Hants 
As you say, the Amiga is definitely technically 
superior to IBM compatibles in many ways. You 
don't have to comply to a 10 year old CPU 
architecture, for a start. 

You can have the best product in the world but 



if you don't let people know about it, nobody is 
going to buy it. That's why it's very important for 
the new Commodore to get out there and start 
pushing the Amiga forward, as well as investing 
significant sums of cash in research and 
development. New models of Amiga? Who knows? 

GENERATION GAPS 

Your magazine Is the one I prefer among the 
others so I've placed a subscription of which I've 
just received the first issue. 

The reason I write is to give my point of view 
about the next generation of Amlgas. First, let's 
consider the facts: the feat CBM Intel died some 
months ago. Why? I'll give you my answer: a 
great computer is useless without great software 
(or without software at alii). Well, this rule 
applies to others: Remember the Sinclair QL, the 
Apple II GS (for graphics and sound), The Next 
computer, the Acorn Archimedes? 

All these computers were great but most of 
their manufacturers didn't think about software. 
So they went down the drain. Note this also 
applies to some kind of software. Think about 
why MS-Windows Is so successful and why OS/2 
(from IBM) is only selling a tenth of Windows! 
Well, Windows didn't sell so much until Microsoft 
releases Word, Excel and the rest. For sure, 
without these two 'hits', Windows would have 
been another unsuccessful attempt... Well, I feel 
very clever to understand that rule of thumb 
while so many important bosses didn't, Huh? 

Consider also the console world: in France, 
the CD32 is almost unknown. Kids only 
understand 'Sega' and 'Nintendo', they don't 
understand the meaning of 'copper', Fat Agnus, 
Multitask, or ISO 9660. They buy a console 
because they've seen great games at their 
friend's home. 

They first remember the name of the game 
and second the name of the console. Well, these 
console are common nowadays because both 
Sega and Nintendo have powerful software 
departments so they released a 'ready to play' 



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LETTERS 



product: both the console and the games. 
Trouble with CBM is they haven't such 
department and you have to watt the Information 
is available to programmers before you start 
having games In the stores. It's almost the same 
thing with 3D0 and Jaguar In France while the 
Playstation has a bright future since Sony Is 
already prepared to make games. 

So Amiga UK Is now on two markets, console 
and computers: they should have at least the two 
corresponding software departments: games and 
serious software. Now let's see the programmers 
situation. You can't develop software without 
programmers. The Amiga Is fairly complex 
machine that needs a lot of documentation for 
proper programming. As OS and chipset are 
(were) often changing, it's important to supply 
everyone interested in programming the docs. 
There is very little literature available compared 
to PC/MAC. 

Moreover, It's extremely expensive (i.e. 
auto docs, RKM...). Why not edit books for the 
beginner and advanced up-dated with every OS 
release? I hope that with the increased 
availability of CD ROM players, Amiga UK, will 
make widely available throughout this media 
tutorials, examples, docs, compilers, assemblers, 
debugging tools and that kind of stuff. Make 
programmers and you'll get more programs! 

Let's talk now about the hardware I think the 
Amiga should have in the next generation. First, 
as there will be no machine before 18 months, 
Amiga UK should enhance the A4000T with: 

• a 68060 processor with optimised memory 
access (+cache memory?). 

• a DSP 

• a CD-player of coursel 

After all, in the PC Industry, the Pentium is the 
hottest thing for one year or two. The DSP will 
follow the CD-players. These enhancement should 
lead to the release of OS version 3.2. 
The CD 32+ should be a console with: 

• 2Mb of fast RAM (total of 4 Megs). 

• a DSP. 

• RS 232 serial link (to play head to head 
which is much more exciting than playing alone, 
take advantage of the CD player with a normal 
Amiga). 

• or better a low cost modem to play head to 
head through PSTN. 

I think that the 680X0 Amlgas should not 
disappear. Many people are not involved in image 
calculation. They only want word processing, 
spreadsheets, games and multimedia. The power 
of a 68040 + DSP -t-Amiga chipset is enough for 
that purpose. Moreover I think It would be 
dangerous to get rid of the 6800 software 
available for the Amiga. 

The Amiga isn't strong enough for that. Apple 
is taking the chance but the PC industry probably 
won't change as fast because you don't play with 
a multi-bill I on business. Finally, I don't think that 
RISC 680X0 emulation will cope successfully 
with every program (most games). 

Second, the RISC machines. In my opinion, 
the best choice is the Hewlett-Packard HP-PA 
series. These processors will be available in 
various flavour if there is demand: multimedia 
processor, and above all Intel X86 emulation 
(giving MS-DOS and Windows emulation). The HP- 
PA already support Windows-NT and Next 
operating systems. 

So, if the next Amiga Is designed with 
emulation In mind they cold become the state of 
the art emulation platform. (Maybe It Is already 



with emplantl). That way, software shouldn't be a 
problem. As far as I am concerned, my next 
purchase is related to that fact. 

• DSP should also be included with great 
software support [musical synthesizer, FAX, voice 
recognition, graphics & sound de/compression, 
number cruncher, games ...). 

• Support for FLASH memories would be 
great allowing easy OS update (still expensive 
today, but within 18 months?) 

• an I/O infrared link would be very nice 
allowing real use of the computer as a 
multimedia system. The FMV video player could 
be controlled from the sofa. Links with printers, 
HP-calculators, Amlgas of alien computers 
(palmtops, organisers: no annoying wires!), VCR 
(for tape editing) would be possible. There Is 
already a standard defined for this link It should 
be available on some computers very soon. 

• Mod em/ Fax should be supported with low 
cost extra hardware. 

• Ethernet (serial link lOmbits/s and more?) 
should be made standard on mid/high end 
professional / since computers. 

• 16 bits sound support (in and out) as 
standard. (With low cost DELTA-SIGMA 
technology found on most CD-Audio players). 

• Better monitors supports for mid-high end 
Amigas. There are not may monitors compatibles 
with all the graphic modes unless you have a 
flicker fixer, 

• Last but not least: games support should 
be given so that you don't have to reset the 
computer each time (before and after!) You want 
to play. At least, there should be support for 
people who persist in hardware banging so their 
software works on every Amiga model, present 
and future. 

Alex Boyen 
Mennecy, France 

Although Commodore's future Is not clearly 
established yet, it is now reasonably sure that 
there will be one. So, It Is a good question to 
wonder about the dream Amiga. Furthermore, we 
can be confident that the new buyer, having seen 
where and how Commodore felt, will have a keen 
ear on what their very loyal customers say they 
want as Amigas. 

What is important In a computer - apart from 
the software you will win on it? Price, 
expendability, OS and ease of use. The latter two 
are rather well done In Amiga technology, though 
a multi-thread OS would be a lot better. We don't 
need virtual memory so much: RAM costs even 
less and less and virtual memory slows down 
things too much (It should be available 
separately, Just as well equipped range of 
computer. Today, there is a price gap between 
the A1200 and the first 4000. 

Jean-Pierre Rivere 
Paris, France 
It seems that French Amiga owners have a firm 
vision of the future, judging from these two letters. 
For more details of the current state of play with 
the Commodore buy-out, check our news pages, 
starting on page 4. Don't forget our cover feature 
this issue, which is about the rise and fall of 
Commodore. It starts on page 8. 

BLEEDIN BLIZZARDS! 

I'm a subscriber to your great magazine. Having 
read the Nov (43) issue with my usual interest I 
came across the review of the Blizzard 4030 50 
MHz accelerator for the 4000. This interested me 



as I've recently purchased a 4000/30 and would 
like to increase the speed slightly (although I'm 
beginning to think that a third party graphics 
board would make a more noticeable difference 
in speed ). 

Your review of the aforementioned board Is 
ummmm rubbish... as is the data for comparison, 
which I assume must be a mis-print. If you look 
at the graphs for comparison you've got a 25MHz 
030 going faster than a warp engine at 33 Mhz 
and a 50 Mhz 030. ..What r u on? It's 
impossible.... you even say this yourself... 'The 
68030 fitted to the Blizzard runs at a nippy 
50MHz, but It still can't get close to a 25MHz 
68040'. ..not what your graphs say! 

In fact, I can't see what the graphs 
show.. ..unless the red bars are the 33MHz 68040 
Warp board. .the purple one's the 50MHz 68Q30 
and the green are 25MHz 68030. 

Any chance of you sorting this out are 
reprinting the correct figures? No doubt Blizzard 
would have a few things to say about the review, 
as you are the first mag to do so... (You may 
have done this In the Dec issue, which I see Is 
available In the shops yesterday... when I get my 
subs issue through the post I can see... always 
seems to arrive in the shops earlier than the 
subscription issue.. .WHY? It doesn't matter 
where I am, In Bristol, Portsmouth or York. ..they 
never arrive before the shops get them!) 

Oh well, back to simulating Atmospheric Gravity 

Waves.... 

Best wishes, 
Jason Brown 

Ahem. Unfortunately, we did get the figures mixed 
up on the Blizzard 4030 review. It's all John 
Kennedy's fault. Honest. I'll sort him out later. 
Actually, you are only half right. Putting the 
memory on the CPU card only makes a real 
difference if you are using a 68040, as this has a 



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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



LETTERS 



SKINT AFTER XMAS? WOULD £25 HELP? 



Personally I don't really bother with all of this 
Christmas lark, but I'm reliably informed that 
quite a lot of other people do. In fact, I also 
hear rumours that some people spend quite a 
lot of money on things such as presents, etc. 
So, in the interest of spreading peace, 



joy and sums of money around the world, we 
are offering £25 for the best letter we print 
every month. 

Fancy getting hold of this dosh? You'll need 
to write a good letter, so here's a few things we 
are interested in hearing about. 



• Tales of Bacchanalian overindulgence 

• The new owners of the Amiga 

• What your granny got you for Christmas 

• The dream Amiga 

• What the new year will hold for the Amiga 



serious bottleneck with motherboard memory. With 
a 68030 (such as the one fitted to the Blizzard 
4030), the difference would not be that profound. 

Anyway, on these pages you will find the 
graphs as they should have looked. Apologies for 
any confusion caused, 

I CLAIM MY £5 

Did anyone else spot Colin Proudfoot at the FES 
on Friday? 

He was mooching around the Amiga stand 
(Incidentally, why was the stand called Amiga, 
but yet they were giving away bags with 
Commodore on them? I thought Commodore were 
no longer In existence!) 

I approached him and said, "It is Colin isn't 
It?" He replied, "Yes" shaking his hand, I said, "I 
didn't expect to see you here!" I then went on to 
say that we were all rooting for him and David 
Pleasance, and that we hoped they won the bid! 
He said "Thanks very much!" 

Although the "Amiga Vs Pee Cee" debate is 
old news now, I've just got to say this! On the 
Pee Cee stand, all they could show all day was 
DOOM, whilst on the Amiga stand, Andy Bishop 
was giving a stonklng LightWave/PAR display! 
Who's the games machine now then! 

Mat Gorner. 
Welwyrt Garden City 
P.S. Why was Nick Veitch yawning all throughout 
the Q/A session? 

Colin Proudfoot and various other luminaries of 
Commodore UK were wandering around the stand 
at various times. Indeed, David Pleasance joined 
us on the Amiga stage in one of our question and 
answer sessions, and people from Commodore 
were on hand to answer questions throughout the 
show. Cheers, chaps. We had some good sessions 
with some very good questions. 

PS - Nick Veitch was yawning throughout the 
Q&A sessions because he had a hangover. Take it 
as a lesson. Drink too much beer and you could 
end up looking like him... 

PASSE PHOTOSHOP 

With the imminent release of this new art 
package "Photogenics," which from what I 
gather, is supposed to be an "Adobe 
Photoshopesque" art package. It got ma 
thinking. 

When "Pagestream V3" was released, people 
ware led to believe it was "Quark XPress" for the 
Amiga, and all the write ups (not reviews) In 
magazines were plugging It's features and saying 
that It might even be the best DTP package on 
any computer. Wow! 

I even had a hardened Mac user come up to 



me after talking to him about it, and say: "That 
new DTP package you were on about, It can't be 
as good as Quark, can It?" It got him thinking! 
But as it turned out, It wasn't. (Damn!) It looked 
the part, Just didn't play it, that's all. 

The point is, why are there so many missed 
opportunities with Amiga S/W? Pagestream had 
the chance of making Amiga S/W respected a 
tittle more. But It's premature release only hurt 
the reputation of Amiga S/W even further. 

It's not as if the Amiga Isn't capable of 
running such applications that are available on 
say the Apple Mac, and let's face it, Mac S/W 
beats Amiga S/W hands down. (With the obvious 
exception of Lightwave/ 1 rn age FX etc. of course!) 
I sincerely hope, when "Photogenics" Is released, 
it is: 

A. Finished! (Unlike "Pagestream V3I") 

B. Isn't fraught with bugs. (Unlike 
"Pagestream V3!"} 

C. Does what it says it's going to do, and 
what everyone expects It to do. (Unlike 
"Pagestream V3I") 

D. Is as good (no, even better!) Than "Adobe 
Photoshop!" 

Another thing! I know this Is a serious-only 
mag, but why is it that SlmClty 2000 for the 
Amiga is very slow? The Mac has the same 
processor as the Amiga, has no custom chips 
helping out, a nice looking, but clunky OS, and 
yet, It's still faster than the Amiga version, why? 
It has no reason to be - was the Amiga version 
rushed? 

It's no wonder Amiga S/W Is scorned upon, 
developers are expecting miracles when It comes 
to sales. What developers should (and may 
already do) is not to simply look at existing 
Amiga S/W when benchmarking against their 
own release, but to look and compare with S/W 
on different platforms. The Mac is a good 
platform for this, because It's S/W is so 
professional looking. (Pity It's so expensive 
thought!) 

Matt Gomer 
Welwyn Garden City. 
For a closer look at Photogenics, check out or 
review on page 28. I agree with you about 
Pagestream. Although there have been a number 
of patches to the program, it is still rather 
unstable and many people (including myself) have 
been disappointed. 

We went into the reasons why Soft Logik 
chose to release the program as it is in our 
feature on the program in issue 43, so I won't go 
over them again. Suffice to say that although 
Pagestream 3 promises great things, it has not yet 
managed to deliver. 



Photogenics over Photoshop? Well, given that 
Photoshop costs a lot more (around £580 against 
around £60 for Photogenics) and has rather more 
upgrades than photogenics, I think it would be a 
little bit overambitious of Almathera to start 
challenging Adobe at their own game yet. However, 
it does look pretty good... 

FILL 'ER UP! 

I'm Interested in the AMOS game 'High Octane' 
which was briefly covered In Amiga Shopper Issue 
43 by Simon Green in his AMOS Action column. 

The article mentioned the names of the 
authors, and how to obtain the game and source 
code. However, I didn't find any address to send 
my request to. Could you please supply me the 
address where I can obtain their program? 

Yours sincerely, 
Jan Lubbers 
The AMOS PD game "High Octane" should be 
available from any good PD library, or from any 
decent BBS. If you are on the Internet, you should 
be able to find it on any one of the Aminet sites. 
The UK Aminet site is at FTP.DOC.IC.ACUK. The 
source code to the program is only available 
directly from the programmers. 

Details of how to contact them are included 
with the game. This is probably also a good a time 
as any to tell you a few other things about Amiga 
Shopper. As of next month, you wiil see a few 
changes in this magazine, for a start, you will 
notice two disks on the cover. 

These will contain the best serious Amiga stuff 
that we can get our hands on, including full 
commercial programs, PD and Shareware and 
programs and files to help you get the best out of 
both these coverdisks and those on Amiga Format. 

Not only that, but we are also going to be 
printed on glossy paper. We will continue to 
concentrate exclusively on the serious side of the 
Amiga, with the same mixture of authoritative 
reviews, excellent tutorials and stonking 
supertests that make Amiga Shopper the worlds 
most fab serious Amiga magazine. 

Plus, we will also be carrying extensive 
tutorials on how to get the most out of your 
coverdisks. For instance, next month we will be 
giving you the full gen on AMOS Professional, with 
10 pages of expert advice on how to use this 
powerful programming language. Stick around. We 
think you'll like what you see. © 



CONTACTING THE 
TALKING SHOP 

To add your contribution to any of the 

debates going on in this page, send your 

letters to : 

Talking Shop 

Amiga Shopper 

30 Monmouth St 

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Avon BA1 2BW 

Alternatively, you can E-Mail them to : 

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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



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SOUTHEAST 

Computer Cavern 

23 Harris Arc, Off Friar St. Reading, Berks, RG1 ION 

Tel: 0628 891101 

Computer Cavern 

Capri House, 9 Dean St, Marlow, Bucks, SL7 3AA 

Tel: 0628 891101 

Computer Solutions 

5 Chingford Mount Road, London, E4 

Tel: 081 523 5566 

Computer Solutions 

38 Chingford Mount Road, London, E4 9AB 

Tel: 081 523 5566 

CMC Computers 

14 Coggeshall Road, Braintree, Essex, CM7 6BY 

Tel: 0376 553333 

GMC Computers . 

65 North Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, C010 6RE 

GMC Computers 

21 Gaol Lane, Sudbury. Suffolk, C010 6JL 

Tel: 0787 374959 

Ht-Tek 

245 Broadway, Bedeyheath. Kent, DA6 8DB 

Tel: 081 303 4B62 

Mega Byte 

103 Elners End Road, Beckenham, Kent, BF3 4SY 

Tel: 081 676 8488 

One Step Beyond 

9/11 Bedford Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1AR 

Tel: 0603 616373 

SRS Micro Systems 

94 The Parade, Watford, Herts, WD1 2AW 

Tel: 0923 220553 

SS Computers 

Eastgate Shopping Centre, Basildon, Essex, SS14 UJ 

Tel: 0268 273273 

Software Emporium 

Magdalen Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1AA 

Tel: 01603 633362 

TORC Software 

9 Wilton Par. Feltham High St, Feltham, TW13 4BU 

Tel: 081 893 2100 

Viking Computers 

Ardney Rise, Catton Grove Rd, Norwich, NR3 3QH 

Tel: 0603 425209 

Game Zone 

18-20 New Rents, High St, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0A8 

Tel: 0233 663996 

Fl Return 

19 London Road, Lowestoft. Suffolk, NR32 1BA 

Tel: 0502 512416 

SOUTHWEST 

Softsell Mall Order 

32 Dursley Road, Trowbridge, Wilts, BAM ONP 

Tel: 025 769331 

Computer Plus 

14 Scarrots Lne, Newport, isle of Wright, P03O LID 

Tel: 0983 821222 

Computer Shop 

4 Holland Walk, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 1DW 

Tel: 0271 78787 

Computerhase 

21 Market Ave, City Cent, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 1PG 

Tel: 0752 668635 

Exmouth Computers 

7/9 Exeter Road, Exmouth, Devon. EX8 iPN 

Tel: 0395 264593 

Megabit Computers 

46 Cohvell Centre, School Street, Weymouth 

Dorset, DT4 8NJ 

Quantum Computers 

2a Blenheim Road, Minehead, Somerset. TA24 5PY 

Tel: 0643 703883 

Total Computing 

16 Station Rd, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, BH14 SUB 

Tel: 0202 717001 



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Ancles 

Royal Parade, Plymouth, PL1 1DU 

Tel: 0752 221851 

RJ Computers 

30 Westbourne Road, Downend, Bristol, BS16 6RX 

Tel: 0272 566369 

Hampshire Vldeocentre 

Portsmouth Rd, Lowford, Southampton, S03 8EQ 

Tel: 0703 404773 

Hytek Computer Rotate Ltd 

52 Oreston Rd. Plymstock, Plymouth, Devon, PL9 7JU 

Tel: 0752 484114 

CENTRAL 

Bits & Bytes 

62c London Road, Oadby, Leicester, LEICS, LE2 SDH 

Tel: 0533 711911 

Cornputability 

35 Bethcar Street, Ebbw Vale, GWENT, NP3 6HW 

Tel: 0495 301651 

Computer Supereentres 

15 David Street, Cardiff, South Glam, CF1 7DE 

Tel: 0222 390286 

Comtazia Ltd 

204 High Street, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 1QQ 

Tel: 0384 239259 

Comtazia Ltd 

8 Mealcheapen St. Worcester, WR1 2DH 
Tel: 0905 723777 

Comtazia Ltd 

4/6 The Arcade, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 2RE 
Tel: 0922 614346 
Comtazia Ltd 

171/177 High St, West Bromwich, W Midlands, 
B70 7RB. Tel:. 021 580 0809 
Comtazia Ltd 

25, Beechwood PI, 123 High St, Cheltenham, 
GL50 1DQ. Tel: 0384 261698 
Comtazia Ltd 

The Shopping Mall, Merry Hili Centre 
Brierley Hill, West Midlands, DY5 1SB 
Tel: 0384 261698 
Fortlss Computers 

138 Wood St, Earl Shilton, Leicester, Leics, LE9 7ND 
Tel: 0455 850980 
Jet Computer Systems 

' 13, The Market, Pentrebane St, Caerphilly, CF8 1FU 
Tel: 0222 880600 
Kettering Computer Centre 
15/17 High Street, Kettering, NorthantS, NN16 8ST 
Tel: 0536 410070 
Screen Scene 

144 St Georges RdCheltenham, Gloucs, GL50 3EL 
Tel: 0242 528979 
Soft Centre 

Cambrian Retail Centre. Newport, GWENT 
Tel: 0633 222481 
Soft Centre 

30 The Parade, Cwmbran, GWENT 
Tel: 0633 868131 

Soft Centre 

20 The Market Place, Blackwood, GWENT 

Tel: 0495 229934 

SorHy 

5 Deer Walk, Cent Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK9 3AB 

Tel: 0908 670620 

T.M.J. Computer Software 

39a Station Rd, Desborough, NorthantS, NN14 2RL 

Tel: 0536 762713 

Computer Mall 

Unit 16 Downstairs, Harpur Centre, Bedford, MK40 1TP 

Tel: 0234 218228 

Get Real 

31 High Street, Wootton Bassett, Wilts, SN4 7AF 
Tel: 0793 848428 

MrSoftee 

39, Pembroke Cent, Swindon, SN2 2PQ 

Tel: 0793 431193 

NORTH 

A18 Business Systems 

9 St Martin's Cres, Scawby, Brigg, S Humbers, DN20 
9BQ 

Tel: 0652 651712 

BOB Corporate Computers 

BDB Cent, 94 Derby Rd, Famworth, Widnes, WAS 9LQ 
Tel: 051 495 1977 



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021 707 7160 



Bolton Computer Centre 

148/150 Chorley Old Rd, Bolton, LANCS, BLO 3AT 
Tel: 0204 31058 
Chips Computers 

9 Newport Rd, Middlesborough, Cleveland, TS1 3LE 
Tel: 0642 252509 

Chips Computers 

C larks lard, Dadington , Co Durham, DL3 7QH 

Chips Computers 

Sirvercourt Cent, Silver St, Stockton, Cleveland, 

TS18 1SX 

Chips Computers 

7 Dundas Street, Redcar, Cleveland, TS10 3AD 

Computatlll Ltd 

77/79 Chadderton Way, Oldham, 0L9 6DH 

Computer & Games Centre 

33/34 St Nicholas Cliff. Scarborough, N Yorks, 

Y011 2ES 

Computer Mania 

The Balcony, Market Hall, Derby, DEI 2DP 

Tel: 0332 292923 

Computer Store 

21a Printing Office Street, Doncaster, DN1 1TP 

Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store 

40 Trinity Street Arcade. Leeds, LSI 6QN 

Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store 

13 Westmoreland Street, Wakefield, WF1 IPN 
Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store 

14 St Sampsons Square, York, Y01 2RR 
Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store 

4 Market Place, Huddersfield, HD1 2AN 
Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store 

34/36 Ivegate, Bradford, BD1 1SW Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store 

44 Market Street, Barnsley, S70 1SN 

Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store 

5 Cole Street, Scunthorpe, DN15 6RA 
Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store 

54 East Mall, Four Seasons Centre, Mansfield, 

NG18 1SX 

Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store 

10 Square, The Woolshops, Halifax, HX1 1RU 
Tel: 0302 890000 

Computer Store (HO) 

Units 13-15, Guildhall Industrial Estate 

Kirk Sandali, Doncaster. South Yorks, DNS 1QR 

Tel: 0302 890000 

The Exchange 

14 Church Road, Jrmston, Manchester, M41 1BV 

Tel: 061 747 4069 

Format 

Rink Shopping Centre, Swadlincote, Derbys, DE11 BJL 

Tel: 0283 219224 

Grantham Computer Centre 

4 Kings Wk, Guildhall St, Grantham, Lines, NG31 6NL 

Tel: 0476 76994 

Humberstone Computer Centre 

49 Fieldhouse Rd, Humberton, Grimsby, DN36 41 J 

Tel: 0472 210601 

Just Micro 

22 Carver Street, Sheffield, South Yorks, SI 4FS 

Tel: 0742 752732 

Lanway Corp Business Systems Ltd 

T/A Burnley Computer Centre 

31-39 Manchester Rd, Burnley, Lanes, BB11 1HG 



HOLBURN SOFTWARE 

111 Holburn St. A t»C; rd«?«- rt 

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Tel: 02S2 31108 

Long Eaton Software Centre 

Commerce Hse, West Gate, Long Eaton 

Notts, NG10 1RG 

Tel: 0602 728555/46 

MCB Computing Group 

24 Mill Lane, Buckley, Chvyd, CH7 3HB 

Tel: 0244 544063 

MS Computers Ltd 

340 Haydock Lne, Haydock, St Helens, Lanes, 

WA119UY 

Tel: 0942 719122 

Mansfield Computers & Electric 

33 Albert Street, Mansfield, Notts, NG10 1EG 

Tel: 0623 631202 

North Notts Computer Centre 

23 Outran St, Sutton In AshSeld, Notts, NG17 4BA 

Tel: 0623 55S6S6 

Postbyte Computers 

1-4 Great Northern House 

Great Northern Ter, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8HN 

Tel: 0522 525321 

PurJsey Computer Shop 

161 Richardshaw Lane, Pudsey, Leeds, W Yorks, 

LS28 6AA 

Tel: 0532 360650 

s.G.M, Electronics 

54 Wigan Lane, Wigan, Greater Manchester. WN1 1XS 

Tel: 0942 321435 

Sapphire Software 

81 Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay, Cfwyd, LL29 7SA 

Tel: 0492 534831 

Software Superstores Ltd 

11 Market Square Arc, Hanley, Stoke On Trent, 

ST1 1PD 

Tel: 0782 268620 

Software Superstores Ltd 

6 Mealhouse Brow, Stockport, Greater Man, SKI UP 

Tel: 061 480 2693 

Software Superstores Ltd 

27 Baldwin St, St Helens. Merseyside, WA10 2RS 

Tel: 0744 27941 



BDB Corporate Computers 

Software consumables 
and accessories available 

94 Derby Road, Famworth, 
Widnes WAS 9LQ 

Tel; 0- j- I 'W-j 1077 



Software Superstores Ltd 

The Courtyard, 5 Horsemarket St, Warrington, WA1 1XL 

Tel: 0925 232047 

Software Superstores Ltd 

Unit 50 Golborne Gallery, The Galleries 

Wigan, Greater Manchester. WN1 1ALI 

Tel: 0942 826956 

Software Superstores Ltd (HO) 

Unit7a Oldham St, Hanley, Stoke On Trent ST1 3EY 

Tel: 0782 202250 

TEC-NOL Ltd 

249 New Rd Side. Horsforth, Leeds, Yorks, LS18 4DR 

Tel: 0532 590020 

Tim's Megastore 

29/31 Sunderland St, Macclesfield, Ches, SK11 6JL 

Tel: 0625 434113 

Tomorrow's World 

27/33 Paragon Street, Hull, Humberside, HL1 3NA 

Tel: 0482 24887 

VLIDATA 

44 st Petersgate, Stockport, Greater Man, SKI 2HL 

Tel: 061 477 6739 

WDATA 

203 Stanford St, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lanes, 0L6 7QB 

Tel: 061 339 0326 

SCOTLAND 

Bits and Bytes 

21b Commercial Street, Dundee, "Tayside, DD1 3DD 

Tel: 0382 22052 

Computer Depot 

205 Buchanan St, Glasgow,Gl 2JZ 

The Games Gallery 

35 Barclay St, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, AB3 2AX 

Tel: 0569 764051 

Moray Business and Computer Centre 

20 Commerce Street, Btginm, Moray, 1V30 IBS 

Tel: 0343 552000 

Holburn Software 

111 Hoi bum Street,Aberdeen,ABl 6BQ 

Tel: 0224 592515 



AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 46 • FEBRUARY 1995 



COMPO 



Win one of six copies of Photogenics! 

Plus 50 T-shirts to be v/onl 




Fancy getting creative with your Amiga? We've got six 
copies of Almathera's excellent paint and image 
processing program to give away, plus fifty fab 
"Photogenics" T-Shirts. Sounds cool? Ail you need to do 



to stand a chance of winning one of these prizes is to 
answer the following questions correctly. Simply put your 
answers on the back of a (preferably wild and wacky) 
postcard and send them to the following address: 



I'm very Photogenic 

Amiga Shopper 

30 Monmouth St Alternatively, you can send entries by E-mail to: 

Bath Photogenic@amshop.demon.co.uk 

Avon BA1 2BW 2:2502/129.1 

Don't forget to include your name, address and telephone number. 

THE QUESTIONS 

1 - Which company publishes Photogenics? 

2 - How old is Paul Nolan, the author of Photogenics? 

3 - Photogenics cannot load JPEG files. True or False? 

All of the answers to these questions can be found somewhere in our review of Photogenics on page 28. 
This competition closes on February 10th 1995. Al! the usual competition conditions apply. Have a nice life! 



The winners are... 

We have two competitions to announce the 
winners of this month. 

For our Lightwave competition, the two 
copies of Lightwave go to: N Connoly and M 
O'Connor of Dublin. 

The other prizes of DKB Megachip 
boards go to M Sanford of Inverclyde and R 



Swingwood of Colchester. The five copies of 
the excellent Lightwave Collection from the 
24 Bit club go to: N Connoly and M 
O'Connor of Dublin, S Etchells of Edinburgh, 
M Woodward of Stalybridge and Steve 
Bowman of Colonge. 

The ProGRAB 24RT competition 



elicited an extremely good response, but 
there can only be five winners in the end. 
Congratulations to: Chris Henden of 
Newport, David Ledger of Canvey Island, 
Alfredo Martins of Portugal, A Pike of Bury 
and Chris Foote of Surrey. Your prizes will 
be on their way shortly! 



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Is the V-Lab Motion the last 
word in non-linear digital 
video editing? Or is it the 
Betamax of the nineties? 
We investigate on page 18. 



3D is a doddle with the latest 
instalment in our series on the 
basics of 3D with Mojo of Foundation 
Imaging. The people responsible for 
the stunning graphics in Babylon 5 
let you in on a few professional 
secrets on page 32. 



Problems? You've got 
them. Answers? We've 
got them. Turn to page 
49 for our solutions to 
your Amiga problems. 




Which graphics 
program could turn 
you into a 
Michelangelo? 
We investigate three 
new programs, 
starting on page 26.